Saltwater
Yuma ricordea
Ricordea yuma
Ricordeidae
Facts
Care
- Type
- Mushroom coral
- Light
- Medium
- Flow
- Low
- Placement
- Low on the rock, Middle of the rock
- Difficulty
- Medium
Water values
Range
Seen here
Seen in the wild in Australia, Fiji, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, and Tanzania.
More about the species
Description
Ricordea yuma is a species of coral in the family Ricordeidae, order Corallimorpharia; This order of corals do not produce the distinctive calcification of the closely related Scleractinian, or reef building corals. Ricordea yuma are found on the sea floor in relatively shallow, tropical or subtropical ocean environments. Distinctive features include a large mouth disk that takes up most of the organism, and brightly colored tentacles. Ricordea yuma can reproduce both sexually, and asexually by budding a new coral with replicated elements from the mother coral. This may be one mechanism of how they are able to spread and overtake areas rapidly; They have been observed being competitively successful at monopolizing areas by excluding reef-building coral species, after a disturbance in the substrate.
Other names
No other names.
