#plerogyra sinuosa

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Plerogyra sinuosa

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A bubble coral (Plerogyra sinuosa) in Sulawesi, Indonesia

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Bubble coral (Plerogyra sinuosa) in the Lembeh Strait, Indonesia

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Bubble Coral (Plerogyra sinuosa)

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True bubble coral

The bubble or bladder coral, Plerogyra sinuosa, is found in protected reef environments, usually in turbid waters, from the Western Indian Ocean to the Line Islands in the Pacific. The most distinguishing feature of P. sinuosa and its closest kin, are the bladders that give this coral its name, but it's skeleton is also distinctive, as may be seen when these bladders are retracted. Colonial skeletons of Plerogyra possess large septa, creating large, remarkable, blade- or petal-like edges, that are easily visible when the polyps have not fully distended their bladders. The bladders themselves actually being modified, water filled tentacles, that are usually over a centimeter, or one inch, in size, but can be five centimeters or two inches across. These bladders can be greenish, but they are much more typically white or creamy in coloration. The physical appearance of Plerogyra corals varies, with the natural degree of distension of these bladders, making visible the sharp edges of the skeketal septa, and the more normal tentacles of the coral. It is thought that the bladders function to regulate the degree of light, that is received by the symbiotic organisms living in the coral tissue, that produce its energy. These bubbles may be tentacles, but they are not used in feeding, or in territorial aggression. For these purposes, Plerogyra possess ordinary stinging rentacles, including vicious sweepers up to 15 or even 20 centimeters long. And a large Plerogyra colony itself may measure up to around 100 centimeters, or 40 inches across.

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Plerogyra sinuosa

Plerogyra sinuosa, comúnmente llamado coral burbuja. Es una especie de coral de la familia Scleractinia incertae sedis, clase Anthozoa. https://acuariossanmiguel.online/corales/ Forma colonias masivas a submasivas, con series largas de cálices dispuestas en forma meandroide, y algunos cálices monocéntricos. Las series de cálices no están unidas lateralmente a las series adyacentes, lo que…

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Plerogyra sinuosa

Commonly known as the grape, bladder, pearl or branching bubble coral Plerogyra sinuosa is a species of "bubble coral" that is distributed throughout the Indian and Pacific Oceans, ranging from the Red Sea to the West and Central Pacific Ocean. P. sinuosa's bubbles will vary in size and will increase/decrease depending on the amount of light available. With them being larger during the day and smaller at night, as it will make room for its tentacles to reach out to capture food.

Classification

Animalia-Cnidaria-Anthozoa-Scleractinia-Caryophylliidae-Plerogyra-P. sinuosa

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