Finally, trueEfflatournariahas appeared in the aquarium trade, as a maricultured coral in theDiver’sDenno less.Efflatournariais a genus of soft corals whose name has been misapplied to various corals in the trade in recent years.Xenia, Hetroxenia和Cespitulariahave all been misidentified asEfflatournariaat one point or another but these new colonies of ‘Effla’ actually look like the pictures in books andAldersladum,the newly described genus of soft coral. Now that we have real good card-carryingEfflatournariaavailable in the trade and we can see how different it looks from all the other Xeniids it’s time to see what this lobe-branched daisy-polyped soft coral can do in an aquarium. The delicate purpley-blue coloration and white centered octocoral polyps looks like it could make for great aquascaping material.
