Calcarea |
Clathrinida |
Clathrinidae
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Reef-associated; brackish. Tropical
Western Central Atlantic and the Antarctic.
Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Flat cushions: 0.5 - 3 cm diameter; comprised of a tightly knit trelliswork of tubes about 0.1 cm wide. Bright, lemon-yellow to pale yellow. Compressible, fragile. The surface is smooth. Few ocules: 0.1 - 0.2 cm wide (Ref. 415).
Common, on peat banks and occasionally grow on other sponges (Ref. 415).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae
Members of the class Calcarea are hermaphroditic. Life cycle: The zygote develops into either coeloblastula or amphiblastula larva (free-swimming) before settling down on a substrate where it grows into a young sponge.
Collin, R., M.C. Díaz, J. Norenburg, R.M. Rocha, J.A. Sánchez, M. Schulze, A. Schwartz and A. Valdés. 2005. (Ref. 415)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)
CITES status (Ref. 108899)
Not Evaluated
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
Human uses
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