Common names from other countries
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Écologie
; profondeur 2 - 61 m (Ref. 108813). Tropical
Distribution
Pays | Zones FAO | Écosystèmes | Occurrences | Introductions
Western Atlantic and Western Central Pacific.
Length at first maturity / Taille / Poids / Âge
Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 10.0 cm OT mâle / non sexé; (Ref. 415)
Description synthétique
Morphologie
Massive; flabellate; rising from a narrow base: 1.5 - 10 cm thick. Bright red-orange externally, lighter internally. The margin is rounded, or indented. Compressible, resilient. The surface is rough to be touch to verrucose, with abundant membrane-bearing oscula: 0.2 - 0.5 cm in diameter (Ref. 415). Color range from orange to brown (Ref. 81728).
Maximum thickness: 10 cm (Ref. 415). Maximum depth reported taken from Ref. 128739. Found in coral reefs, usually below 10 m in depth (Ref. 415), and on rocky bottoms (Ref. 83912). It hosts alpheid shrimps, i.e., Synalpheus spp. in its canals (Ref. 86672). Inhabits shallow and mesophotic coral reefs along with coral communities and coralline algae reefs (Ref. 128739).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturité | Reproduction | Frai | Œufs | Fécondité | Larves
Members of the class Demospongiae are hermaphroditic. Life cycle: The zygote develops into parenchymella 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)
Statut dans la liste rouge de l'IUCN (Ref. 130435)
statut CITES (Ref. 108899)
Not Evaluated
Not Evaluated
Menace pour l'homme
Harmless
Utilisations par l'homme
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Outils
Plus d'informations
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Sources Internet
Estimates based on models
Preferred temperature
(Ref.
115969): 26 - 28.3, mean 27.2 (based on 435 cells).
Vulnérabilité
Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
Catégorie de prix
Unknown.