Belize country information

Common names: [No common name]
Occurrence: native
Salinity: brackish
Abundance: | Ref:
Importance: | Ref:
Aquaculture: never/rarely | Ref:
Regulations: no regulations | Ref:
Uses: no uses
Comments: Known from the mangrove ponds at Twin Cays and Pelican Cays (Ref. 86836, 86789), and in a submarine cave near Columbus Cay (Ref. 87209). C: Ref. 86836, 83912, 87209; O: Ref. 86789.
National Checklist: Belize Biodiversity Information System - Fish
Country Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/bh.html
National Fisheries Authority: http://www.caricom-fisheries.com/belize-fisheries
Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Diaz, M.C. and K. Ruetzler, 2009
National Database:

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Black ball sponge, ... more

Classification / Names / Names Nomes comuns | Sinónimos | Catalog of Fishes (gen., sp.) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS

> Dictyoceratida () > Irciniidae ()

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecologia

Associadas(os) a recifes; estuarina; intervalo de profundidade 1 - 50 m (Ref. 108813). Tropical

Distribuição Países | Áreas FAO | Ecossistemas | Ocorrências | Introduções

Western Atlantic: Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico.

Length at first maturity / Tamanho / Peso / Idade

Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm Max length : 0.5 cm H macho/indeterminado; (Ref. 415)

Descrição breve Morfologia

Massive-globular with large sharp conules: up to 0.5 cm high; regularly spaced up to 1.3 cm apart. Membrane-bearing oscules: 0.2 - 1.5 cm wide; usually grouped onto a depression on top of the sponge. Dark gray to black externally, tan internally. Tough very hard to cut (Ref. 415). Morphology: fan, lobate, massive or spherical (Ref. 81728). Color often paler near the base, rarely almost white with. Black oscules; small specimens have only one oscule (Ref. 85482).

Maximum depth reported taken from Ref. 128739. Common on shallow reefs, seagrass beds (Ref. 415) and hard bottoms. Also found in mangroves (Ref. 86836). Occasionally on deeper muddy sand bottoms. Often emits a strong, sulfurous pungent scent when removed from the water (Ref. 85482). In Belize, it was found in a submarine cave near Columbus Cay (Ref. 87209). Inhabits coralline algae reefs, coral communities, and lower mesophotic reefs (Ref. 128739).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturidade | Reprodução | Desova | Ovos | Fecundidade | Larvas

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.

Referência principal Referências | Coordenador | Colaboradores

Collin, R., M.C. Díaz, J. Norenburg, R.M. Rocha, J.A. Sánchez, M. Schulze, A. Schwartz and A. Valdés. 2005. (Ref. 415)

Categoria na Lista Vermelha da IUCN (Ref. 130435)

Não avaliado

Categoria CITES (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Utilização humana

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Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 23.7 - 28.1, mean 27.3 (based on 722 cells).

Vulnerabilidade (Ref. 71543): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).

Categoria de preço (Ref. 80766): Unknown.

Ircinia strobilina (Lamarck, 1816)