帕沃纳·马尔迪文斯（Pavona Maldivensis）is one of the most distinctive stony corals in the world with a gnarly growth form and mound shaped corallites that reefers once believed to be a bizarre species ofCyphastrea。与其他更具碎屑和荷叶边的物种不同Pavona，，，，马尔迪文氏疟原虫开发带有球形末端的粗壮树枝，导致一个紧密间隔的俱乐部分支的殖民地，与世界上任何其他珊瑚或水族馆的爱好不同。
In nature the clubbyPavona通常是发现在栖息地强波活动吗on often growing just below the light hungryAcroporaandporitescorals. While马尔迪文氏疟原虫很容易保存在水族馆中，它往往是一个非常慢的种植者，它主要是包裹并开发薄板，只有一定暗示的俱乐部分支作为小土墩。这个lack of ‘maturity’ in reef tanks is probably because these corals are treated like other Pavonas with low light and gentle flow, but in order to develop to their fullest they need to be given very strong flow and a lot more light like an SPS coral.
Unlike so many other corals in the reef aquarium world the most common color of马尔迪文氏疟原虫是橙色的，绿色变体的变化要罕见得多，但收集的频率也少得多，因为水族基督通常会选择橙色殖民地而不是绿色殖民地。还有来自南太平洋的变体的图片，其绿色是橙色的嘴在水族馆照明下绝对发光。
Since帕沃纳·马尔迪文斯（Pavona Maldivensis）在我们看到收集的殖民地中具有非常保守的颜色图案，几乎让我们感到震惊地遇到了澳大利亚礁石建筑商的一些图像，这些图像清楚地显示了我们从未见过的颜色变形。这个马尔迪文氏疟原虫strain documented by Reefurbished and Gallery Aquatica is an astounding orange with green mouths just like the beloved and iconic ‘Jack O Lantern’Leptoseriswhich seems to support the very close taxonomy betweenPavonaandLeptoseris。
REEFurbishedacquired their initial pieces from the tank breakdown of Elliot White who worked at Pet City which acquired most of their corals from Cairns Marine. Meanwhile画廊Aquaticarecalls a handful of frags of the orange and green马尔迪文氏疟原虫being sold by Australian coral collector Salty Pets a couple years back.
Therefore it’s not clear whether these different companies got their frags from the same original colony, or if these were separate collections. But one thing is for certain – if the color morph exists, surely there’s more than one colony of the orange and green帕沃纳·马尔迪文斯（Pavona Maldivensis）在野外。
目前，画廊Aquatica和Reefferfers中只有几个碎片，但现在爱尔兰主题的独特性帕沃纳·马德里文斯（Pavona Madlivensis）has come to light, hopefully Australian reefers will celebrate this very special color strain and share it throughout their aquarium community. Regardless of color,帕沃纳·马尔迪文斯（Pavona Maldivensis）是一种非常独特的珊瑚，它很耐寒，非常宽容多种条件，它像其他珊瑚很少的珊瑚一样为任何礁石水族馆增添了形状和质地的风格。
