Polychaeta |
Phyllodocida |
Syllidae
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Host; depth range 0 - 189 m (Ref. 112705). Tropical
Indo-Pacific, Western Atlantic and the Mediterranean: Central America to northern Brazil.
Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
From intertidal to circumlittoral and bathyal habitats. Occurs both inside and outside of all kinds of sponges and hard substrates (Ref. 107178). In soft substrate (Ref. 112705). Found in the aquiferous system of the sponge Aplysina cauliformis while grazing on the sponge tissues (Ref. 108308).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae
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.
Bisby, F.A., M.A. Ruggiero, K.L. Wilson, M. Cachuela-Palacio, S.W. Kimani, Y.R. Roskov, A. Soulier-Perkins and J. van Hertum. 2005. (Ref. 19)
IUCN Red List Status
(Ref. 130435: Version 2024-2)
CITES status (Ref. 108899)
Not Evaluated
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
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Preferred temperature
(Ref.
115969): 8.4 - 20.6, mean 13.7 (based on 988 cells).
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Unknown.