塞纳琳娜lacrymalis, ‘modern corals’ or whatever the scientists and cool kids are calling them these days, are one of the longstanding popular corals in the aquarium hobby today. Coming in shades of pink, red, green, brown and all colors in between, this coral is almost always cool to look at, as a single over inflated polyp that looks like big pillow of tissue.
There is very little variation in forms of Cynarina, twin or figure-8 shaped specimens are not all that uncommon, but this 6-headed Cynarina is a crazy outlier of an LPS growth freak. When it opens up it looks like a grossly overgrown trumpet coral with huge and uneven polyps, and it’s the kind of aberration that really gets our attention, especially from a coral that is usually so cooky-cutter.
超级时髦的cynarina是由克里斯·梅克利(Chris Meckley)获得的ACI水产养殖他立即想到朱利安(Julian)成为所有Cynarina,Indophyllia和所有相关矮胖的LP的超级粉丝。朱利安(Julian)被这种珊瑚夺走了,以至于他对这种非常不寻常的“六边形”珊瑚提供了自己的看法。
‘这是一个非常壮观的例子……我已经看到了双打,三倍,甚至是四边形,但这是另一种事情。实际上,它具有骨骼特征,使我想知道该怎么称呼。当然,它是cynarina,但物种尚不清楚。九月科最类似于我们现在所说的阿甘菲斯利亚deshayesiana,圆柱的侧面(在冠状石之外)就像某种形式吲哚论.’
‘如您所知,我认为这些都属于一个属,我认为这是塞纳琳娜当然,可能会改变。这将是强度resting to look at the DNA to see whether this beast represents a hybrid, or whether there may be an additional species within the group. Hybrid seems likely.’
无论这个六头cynarina的来源,它都是一个非常酷的标本,也是一个非常新颖的奇怪性。这个珊瑚使我们想起了multi-headed气齿但是,在这种珊瑚的起源可能是来自损害和再生的地方,我们无法想象在这种cynarina中起作用的机制,因为头部都是如此统一和圆形。六个头塞纳琳娜是我们见过的最接近该物种的殖民形式的例子,但是现在我们知道这是可能的,我们肯定会在寻找更多类似标本的地方。