Order Hydrocorallina: These are colonial polypoid hydrozoans
that secrete calcium carbonate skeletons, though they are not true
corals... The Order comprises two suborders, the Milleporina and
Suborder Stylasterina: Characterized by having a thick layer
of tissue overlying their skeletons. Their specialized feeding and
defensive polyps are imbedded within star-shaped openings in their
calcareous skeletons.
Aquarium Husbandry: Not hard to keep IF procured in originally
healthy condition, and kept under "ideal" cured reef
conditions... Sometimes deteriorates.... make that almost all the time.
An excerpt from a conversation on FaceBook re Stylaster captive
husbandry:
Distichopora sp. |
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Stylaster roseus
Here in the Bahamas and St. Lucia in the TWA. Below off Grand
Turk.
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Stylaster sp. Bunaken, Indonesia. N.
Sulawesi colonies below. |
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