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Breeder ID: STIHAD-070697-JACLAR-002

Date received: 7/6/97

Identification: Stichodactyla haddoni (Saville-Kent, 1893)

Geographic origin: Indo-Pacific

Taxonomy: (after I.C.Z.N)

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Cnidaria

Class: Anthozoa  Subclass: Hexacorallia

Order: Actiniaria

Family: Stichodactylidae

Genus: Stichodactyla

Species: haddoni

Description: Slight to deep folded oral disc, 50 cm (reported up to 80 cm) diameter. 1 – 2 cm tentacle-free oral area. Color varies; column yellowish to tan. Tentacles are blunt bulbous or with basal “stalk” at the end; green, yellow, grey, rarely pink. May be variegated. Lives on or abouve sandy surfaces in shallow waters. Distribution from Fiji, Australia, Mauritius, to Ryukyu Islands.

Duration male(yr): not indicated

Size male (mm): 450

Adult diet: Not indicated. Animal is maintained in reef tank containing ~ 30 species of soft corals.

Pre-spawning activity: None observed. Animal just started releasing gametes into water.

Time spawning began: 2000 – 2200 hrs

Frequency of spawning: first spawning

Description: milky cloud

Approximate quantity: unknown.

Size: not indicated

Egg changes / development: Not attempted

Transfer / removal method: n/a

Spawning tank size (liter): 470

Sides of tank covered? Back

Lighting & photo period: 580 watts total illumination, 12 hour photoperiod

Filtration: Berlin style system

Additives and dosages: not indicated

Water temperature (F): 78 – 80

Salinity: 35 ppt

pH: 8.13 – 8.36

Nitrate: 0.35 ppm

Comments: Anemone is host to three (3) Amphiprion clarkii

Original description: First described by Saville-Kent in 1893 as Discosoma haddoni from specimens collected on the northern Great Barrier Reef.

Synonyms: Stoichactis kenti (Friese, 1972; Moyer & Sawyers, 1973). S. gigantea (Friese, 1972), S. haddoni (by Uchida, et al. 1975, Moyer 1976, Moyer & Steene 1979)

Word origin: The genus Stichodactyla is from the Greek root(s) sticho meaning a row or line; and dactyl meaning a finger or toe. The species hadonni is in honor of Haddon.

Vernacular name: Haddon’s anemone

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