Neofibularia nolitangere   (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)

Touch-me-not sponge

Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050
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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

| Poecilosclerida | Desmacellidae

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

; distribuzione batimetrica 2 - 70 m (Ref. 108813).  Tropical

Distribuzione Stati | Aree FAO | Ecosystems | Presenze | Introduzioni

Western Central Atlantic.

Length at first maturity / Size / Peso / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 80.0 cm WD maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 415)

Short description Morfologia

Thick encrusting: 0.4 - 3 cm, or massive to large vases: up to 80 cm wide and high. Brown-red in color externally, tan internally. Surface varies from smooth and porous, to corrugated and micro hispid, somewhat velvety. Oscules dispersed: 0.3 - 0.6 cm wide. Firm but fragile (Ref. 415).

Biologia     Glossario (es. epibenthic)

Maximum depth reported taken from Ref. 128739. On reef environments, usually under 5 m deep (Ref. 415). Also found in mangroves (Ref. 86836). Dwells in coral reefs or rock pavements in shallow depths. Possibly associated with polychaete worms (Ref. 128739).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturità | Riproduzione | Deposizione | Uova | Fecundity | Larve

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.

Main reference Bibliografia | Coordinatore | Collaboratori

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)

  Not Evaluated 

CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

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Fonti Internet

BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(Publication : search) | Fishipedia | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Tree of Life | Wikipedia (Go, ricerca) | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 23.6 - 28, mean 27 (based on 210 cells).
Vulnerability (Ref. 71543): Moderate to high vulnerability (52 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766): Unknown.