Common names from other countries
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Écologie
; saumâtre; profondeur 18 - 177 m (Ref. 112705). Tropical; 73°N - 48°S, 176°W - 162°E
Atlantic, the Mediterranean and Indo-Pacific.
Length at first maturity / Taille / Poids / Âge
Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Found in estuarine and inshore areas (Ref. 96352). Inhabits terrigenous coastal mud (Ref. 2780). A predator (Ref. 96501)/carnivore-scavenger (Ref. 96352). Appears to feed on other burrowing polychaetes (Ref. 108042). Uses a jawed pharynx for feeding (Ref. 125928).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturité | Reproduction | Frai | Œufs | Fécondité | Larves
Members of the class Polychaeta are mostly gonochoric (sexual). Mating: Females produce a pheromone attracting and signalling the males to shed sperm which in turn stimulates females to shed eggs, this behavior is known as swarming. Gametes are spawned through the metanephridia or body wall rupturing (termed as "epitoky", wherein a pelagic, reproductive individual, "epitoke", is formed from a benthic, nonreproductive individual, "atoke"). After fertilization, most eggs become planktonic; although some are retained in the worm tubes or burrowed in jelly masses attached to the tubes (egg brooders). Life Cycle: Eggs develop into trocophore larva, which later metamorph into juvenile stage (body lengthened), and later develop into adults.
Salazar-Vallejo, S.I. and M.H. Londoño-Mesa. 2004. (Ref. 8159)
Statut dans la liste rouge de l'IUCN (Ref. 130435)
statut CITES (Ref. 108899)
Not Evaluated
Not Evaluated
Utilisations par l'homme
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Estimates based on models
Preferred temperature
(Ref.
115969): 0.4 - 12, mean 5.5 (based on 720 cells).
Catégorie de prix
Unknown.