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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
Sessile; depth range 8 - 300 m (Ref. 119523). Subtropical
Circumglobal. Tropical to polar.
Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Colonies strongly fascicled; complementary nematocysts microbasic euryteles; female blastostyles and male blastostyles unreduced, mature eggs scattered along pedicel thickened by perisarc (Ref. 3086).
Associated with brown algae Sargassum muticum and Halidrys siliquosa on hard bottom (Ref. 120410).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae
Reproduction occurs only in hydroid stage (Ref. 1663, p. 13).
Cairns, S.D., D.R. Calder, A. Brinckmann-Voss, C.B. Castro, D.G. Fautin, P.R. Pugh, C.E. Mills, W.C. Jaap, M.N. Arai, S.H.D. Haddock and D.M. Opresko. 2003. (Ref. 1663)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)
CITES status (Ref. 108899)
Not Evaluated
Not Evaluated
Human uses
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Estimates based on models
Preferred temperature
(Ref.
115969): 2.7 - 13.6, mean 7.8 (based on 1161 cells).
Price category
Unknown.