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Classification / Names / Names
Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes (gen., sp.) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Benthic; depth range 4 - 5000 m (Ref. 1844). Tropical; 77°N - 56°S, 98°W - 42°E
Southeast Pacific, Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean and Black Sea.
Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Trunk slender, unsegmented; lateral processes at least twice as long as their diameters, with very small dorsodistal tubercles and tiny setae. Neck very slender, extending in arc well anterior above proboscis. Ocular tubercle slightly longer than twice its diameter; eyes large. Placed distally, proximal to small apical cone. Proboscis cylindrical, constricted distally. Abdomen tall, slender, with distal setae. Chelifores long, slender, with several dorsal setae; chelae palms rectangular, swollen; fingers slender, without teeth. Ovigers long; third segment more than twice length of second; 2 terminal segments with many setae. Legs long, increasingly setose distally; long dorsodistal spines usually longer than segment diameter; cement gland tube half as long as segment diameter; propodus long, slender, with 2 major heel spines, 4 setae, and long lamina more than half sole length; claw long; auxiliaries tiny but distinct (Ref. 2115, p. 54).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae
Development site of larval association: galls on Syncoryne eximia; in medusae of Cosmetira pilosella,Turris pileata, Stomotoca dinema, Phialidium hemisphericum and Obelia; and, inside polyps of Hydractinia echinata, Podocoryne carnea and Obelia (Ref. 213).
Raiskii, A.K. and E.P. Turpaeva. 2006. (Ref. 1844)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-1)
CITES status (Ref. 108899)
Not Evaluated
Not Evaluated
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Estimates based on models
Preferred temperature
(Ref.
115969): 2.2 - 8.5, mean 3.6 (based on 333 cells).
Price category
Unknown.