在几代珊瑚礁饲养员中,几乎没有比无与伦比的锤子珊瑚更具标志性和钟爱的珊瑚。纤维状腹膜ancora,which is abundant across big stretches of the Indo-Pacific. For years we sought evergreener specimens ofF. ancora, we collectively gasped when the firsttruly orange hammer corals开始出现在礁石水族馆的爱好中,我们几乎不知道珊瑚礁还没有揭示出绿色锤子珊瑚的殖民地,上面有橙色的触手尖端!
Our first encounter with this mythical combination of colors inF. ancora发生在澳大利亚的第一个重礁,我们花了一些时间在一个borderline unbelievable colony在昆士兰州收藏家咸宠物的摊位中。Crazy ‘euphyllias’ have been a theme at each edition of ReefStock down under and this year we were treated to not one but two very different forms of green hammer corals with orange tentacle tips, and it just so happens that these were harvested from opposite sides of the continent.
绿色锤珊瑚的“西海岸版”,带有绿色触角技巧,并收集了Ocean Reefs Marine Aquariumsand it was a large colony with multiple ‘fronds’ of skeleton extending from the enter of the colony. The tentacles of these Indian OceanF. ancoraare thinner and more numerous with more defined hammer-shaped tentacle tip which showed more delineation between the green and orange color, with a hint of a black stripe at the base to add further contrast to this show-stopping colony.
东海岸版的F. ancorawas exhibited by尼克的海洋和玻璃容器and was collected in waters of the Coral Sea off the coast of Queensland. Despite having the same color pattern as the west coast version of hammer coral, Nick’s colony has fewer and thicker tentacles which were a little bit more lime green, with more rounded ‘anvil’ shaped tentacles that were more peach than orange in coloration.
While both of these corals are technically classified as纤维状腹膜ancora,它们的形态,骨骼的生长形式和触角形状有明显的差异。即使它们展示的绿色和橙色的精确阴影也不完全相同,这是我们发现作为珊瑚怪胎和礁石水族徒发现的那种多样性。不仅是锤子珊瑚,如果您在一个物种中,您也可以看到更多的差异,更不用说huge range of hybridsthat we’re just beginning to start noticing and describing.