真菌科家族的蘑菇珊瑚是世界上最独特,最独特的珊瑚。从微小的圆形单生环球体to the largest free living colonies the mushroom corals are wildly popular species in the reef aquarium hobby for their ostentatious colors that we’ve在这里庆祝在礁石建造者上多次。
虽然大多数碟形珊瑚通常都会被整合到“真菌”中,但该组还包括几种由于其细长的形状而被称为舌珊瑚,但它们并非全部相同。最常见的“舌珊瑚”包括完美的细长Herpolithawhich can be found in bright green or orange colors while the less often seen ‘slipper’ corals of the多晶体genus are also elongated, very fuzzy with tentacles but mostly grey to a light jade green.
但是还有另一种常见物种,Lobactis Scutaria它的椭圆形形状偶尔看起来足够拉长,被称为舌珊瑚。与所有其他蘑菇珊瑚的区别足以保证将其放入自己的属中,lobactis是整个太平洋,尤其是夏威夷的一种非常常见的真菌,它通常看起来是浅粉红色,可与绿色的触角形成鲜明对比。
紫色和绿色几乎是Lobactis Scutaria因此,几年前,我们以一种全橙色的颜色在全橙色中发现这种物种感到非常惊讶。虽然我们没有看到少数橙色的例子lobactis自2015年以来,我们碰巧遇到了一张新鲜标本的照片De Jong Marinelife似乎是橙色的触角!
毫无疑问,这种珊瑚是lobactis在每个软组织的触角下方,骨骼的隔膜凸起凸起,但对于该物种而言,该示例的确表现出更加伸长的形状。It’s hard to tell from the photograph how vivid the orange truly is as it’s got some intermediate to the more usual purple base pigment but either way, we love to see these ‘lobed’ tongue corals in the reef aquarium hobby and hope to see more of the orange form with green tentacles in the future.