We visited Jakarta Indonesia last week, touring the bustling coral and aquarium exporting locations to see corals from all over Indonesia. While at Reefmaster Indonesia, we sighted an awesome, huge solitary polyp of Blastomussa vivida; we pulled out the underwater camera and couldn’t get the color quite right.
One thing led to another, the fluorescent photo equipment came out and the next thing you know, we’ve got a whole photo shoot of the mysterious Blastomussa coral in it’s most ostentatious colors. It’s safe to say that we ‘got the shot’ we were aiming for, and man you wouldn’t believe the size of this one single Blasto polyp, around three inches in diameter.
我们说,与许多石质珊瑚甚至类似的大息肉相比,这种珊瑚,胚泡是神秘的。我们只是最近才意识到B. vividafrom the Indo-Pacific is different from other species in Australia and the Indian Ocean, and it’s particularly rare.We’ve never dove a reef and seen an area whereblblymussa成长为明显的规模,更不用说统治着栖息地了,我们很幸运看到每个墙壁潜水。有趣的是,您可以依靠一个通常的地方看到Blassormussa的体面殖民地是在沉船上。
Additionally, various species of bubble corals are also frequently seen growing on shipwrecks, and research on the taxonomy of Blastomussa seems to suggest that it is more closely related to fox and bubble corals than any of the LPS-mussa corals. Perhaps the genetic and ecological connections between hard to keep blastomussa and easy to keep bubble corals can be explored in advance our understanding of these species.