Kappaphycus alvarezii, Elkhorn sea moss : fisheries, aquaculture

Kappaphycus alvarezii   (Doty) Doty ex P.C. Silva

Elkhorn sea moss

Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050
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Kappaphycus alvarezii  AquaMaps  Data sources: GBIF OBIS
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رده بندی / Names اسامي عام | مترادف | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Florideophyceae | Gigartinales | Areschougiaceae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / تغييرات عمق / distribution range بوم شناسي

.  Tropical

Distribution كشورها | مناطق سازمان خوار و بار جهاني (FAO) | Ecosystems | ظهور | معرفي

Atlantic Ocean: in the Caribbean (Cuba); Indian Ocean: in Southern Kenya, east to Indonesia; Pacific Ocean: from China to the South China Sea, south to Indonesia, east to Hawaiian Islands including Federated States of Micronesia and Fiji, and south to Tahiti (Ref. 80701); transported to Hawaii, where it was successfully grown, and thence to island groups of the western Pacific, such as, Guam, Micronesia, Christmas Island, Fanning, Tarawa and other atolls of Kiribati, Fiji, Tonga, and French Oceania. It has been transported to Southern China, Indonesia and also to Southern Africa (Ref. 80758).

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / سن

بلوغ: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm

توصيف مختصر ريخت شناسي

Thalli erect, loosely branched, robust, cartilaginous and range from dark greenish brown to deep purple in colour. Main axes cylindrical throughout, 1.5 to 6 mm in diameter when dried. Lateral ultimate branches arranged secundly to alternately on the axes; they are terete, attenuated to acute or spinose tips varying in length from 1 to 17 mm and 1 to 2 mm in diameter near their bases. Cross-section of a branch shows a medulla composed of small thick-walled cells interspersed among large parenchymatous cells at the centre. Cortical cells very small. Thalli up to 30 cm in height (Ref. 80758).

زيست شناسي     واژه نامه (بعنوان مثال epibenthic)

Principal raw material in producing kappa-carrageenan and widely used in seaweed farming; used by human as food, blanched in boiling water combined with sliced tomatoes and onions, mixed with a sweet sour dressing made of vinegar, salt and sugar; also used in making jelly-type desserts; a source of minerals (Ca, K, Mg, Na, (Pb, Cd); of high commercial interest internationally as source of carrageenan (Ref. 82232); commercially farmed and forms bulk of the dried "Eucheuma" exported abroad (Ref. 80758). Commercially farmed; first discovered on the reef flats of easternmost Sabah and the southwesternmost part of Sulu Archipelago (Ref. 80758).

Life cycle and mating behavior بلوغ | تولید مثل | تخم ریزی | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae

مآخذ اصلی مراجع | هماهنگ كننده | همكاران

Guiry, M.D. and G.M. Guiry 2009 AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 14 April 2009. (مرجع 80701)

وضعيت در فهرست قرمز IUCN (مرجع 130435: Version 2025-1)


وضعيت از نظر سايتس (مرجع 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (مرجع 116361)

Not Evaluated

خطر برای انسان ها

  Harmless (مرجع 80758)

استفاده انسانی

ماهي گيري – شيلات: تجاري; آبزي پروري: تجاري
FAO - آبزي پروري: production; | FishSource | Sea Around Us

ابزارها

اطلاعات بيشتر

Trophic Ecology
Food items (preys)
تركيب غذايي
مصرف غذايي
شکارچیان
بوم شناسي
Population dynamics
رشد
Max. ages / sizes
Length-weight rel.
Length-length rel.
نوسانات طولی
Mass conversion
فراواني
Life cycle
تولید مثل
بلوغ
Fecundity
تخم ریزی
Eggs
نمو تخم
Larvae
Physiology
Oxygen consumption
Human Related
Stamps, coins, misc.
مراجع

منابع اينترنتي

BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(; publication : search) | Fishipedia | GenBank (ژنوم, نوکلئوتيد) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | AlgaeBase | Tree of Life | Wikipedia (برو, جستجو) | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 24.7 - 29.3, mean 28.4 (based on 3041 cells).