by Afishionado | Jul 1, 2017 | Corals, Video
For this episode, we traveled to Plant City, Florida to visit our friend Chris Meckley of ACI Aquaculture to talk about my personal favorite type of corals: Meat Corals. We talked about various different corals such as Acanthophyllia, Cynarina, and Indophyllia, their... by Joe Rowlett | Dec 28, 2016 | Corals, Science
Over the past decade, researchers investigating the genetics of coral evolution came to a startling conclusion—the traditional classification used for stony corals, based on skeletal morphology, was horribly (almost comedically)... by AquaNerd | Jan 30, 2016 | Corals, Invertebrates, Reef, Science
Cynarina is a genus of stony coral in the family Lobophylliidae. It is a monotypic species which means that the only species in the genus is Cynarina lacrymalis. Sometimes reaching up to 6” for a single polyp, these corals are very fleshy in appearance and often referred to as the Cat’s Eye, Tooth Coral, Doughnut Coral or Meat Coral. The coral is found in the Western Indo-Pacific Ocean and ranges in many different color forms from pastel to vivid and translucent. The coloration in the Cynarina coral pictured above is both beautiful and very unusual and therefore classified as an “Ultra” coral. This coral was just featured in a newsletter from livestock wholesaler, Eye Catching Corals. Aquarium Care Cynarina corals are not considered to by Josh Saul | Apr 19, 2013 | Corals, Eye Candy
This strange new Cynarina specimen was last seen at Cherry...