Global InformationRicordea yuma information
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Class: | Hexacorallia |
| Order: | Corallimorpharia |
| Family: | Ricordeidae |
| Genus: | Ricordea |
| Species: | R. yuma
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| Ricordea yuma (Carlgren, 1900)
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Ricordea yuma is a species of coral in the family Ricordeidae, order Corallimorpharia;[1] This order of corals do not produce the distinctive calcification of the closely related Scleractinian, or reef building corals.[2] Ricordea yuma are found on the sea floor in relatively shallow, tropical or subtropical ocean environments. Distinctive features include a large mouth disk that takes up most of the organism, and brightly colored tentacles.[3] Ricordea yuma can reproduce both sexually, and asexually by budding a new coral with replicated elements from the mother coral.[4] This may be one mechanism of how they are able to spread and overtake areas rapidly; They have been observed being competitively successful at monopolizing areas by excluding reef-building coral species, after a disturbance in the substrate.[5]
- ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Ricordea yuma (Carlgren, 1900)". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2018-05-29.
- ^ Forêt, Sylvain; Miller, David John; Chen, Chao Lun Allen; Kitahara, Marcelo V.; Chou, Wen Hwa; Lin, Mei Fang (2016-10-11). "Corallimorpharians are not "naked corals": insights into relationships between Scleractinia and Corallimorpharia from phylogenomic analyses". PeerJ. 4: e2463. doi:10.7717/peerj.2463. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 5068439. PMID 27761308.
- ^ "Corallimorpharia - General Information & Species on the Canary Islands". Diving Canary Islands. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
- ^ Lin, Mei-Fang; Chen, Chaolun Allen; Miller, David J. (2013-11-08). "Asexual reproduction by marginal budding in the tropical corallimorpharian Ricordea yuma (Corallimorpharia; Ricordeidae)". Galaxea, Journal of Coral Reef Studies. 15 (2): 41–42. doi:10.3755/galaxea.15.41. ISSN 1883-3969.
- ^ Lindén, Olof; Souter, David; Wilhelmsson, Dan; Obura, David O. (2002). Coral reef degradation in the Indian Ocean : status report 2002. CORDIO. ISBN 9789197395922.