Common names from other countries
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Οικολογία
; εύρος βάθους 2 - 61 m (Ref. 108813). Tropical
Western Atlantic and Western Central Pacific.
Length at first maturity / Μέγεθος / Βάρος / Age
Maturity: Lm ? range ? - ? cm Max length : 10.0 cm OT αρσενικό/απροσδιόριστο; (Ref. 415)
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
Γεννητική Ωρίμανση | Αναπαραγωγή | Γεννοβολία | Αβγά | Γονιμότητα | Προνύμφες
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)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)
CITES status (Ref. 108899)
Not Evaluated
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
Harmless
Human uses
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Εργαλεία
Περισσότερες πληροφορίες
Age/SizeΑύξησηLength-weightLength-lengthΜορφολογίαΠρονύμφεςΑφθονία
Διαδικτυακές πηγές
Estimates based on models
Preferred temperature
(Ref.
115969): 26 - 28.3, mean 27.2 (based on 435 cells).
Vulnerability
Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
Price category
Unknown.
