Haliclona caerulea (Hechtel, 1965)

Blue Caribbean sponge

Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050

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Haliclona caerulea AquaMaps Data sources: GBIF OBIS

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Классификация / Names народные названия | синонимы | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Demospongiae | Haplosclerida | Chalinidae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / пределы глубины / distribution range экология

ассоциированный с рифами; солоноватоводный; пределы глубины 1 - 6 m (ссылка 108813). Tropical

Distribution страны | регионы FAO | Ecosystems | места находок | интродукции

Pacific Ocean and Western Central Atlantic.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Возраст

половая зрелость: L_m ? range ? - ? cm

Краткое описание морфология

Thickly encrusting or massive with irregular, solid form. Raised thick-walled volcano-shaped oscules reaching several centimeters in height. Exterior is pale blue-green, while interior is dirty yellow in color. Soft and easily torn, even, slightly smooth surface similar to a fine sandpaper. Megascleres are bent oxeas, 170 to 230 micrometers and microscleres are sharply curved C-shaped sigmas about 25 micrometers.

Author and year from Ref. 3248. Mainly restricted to shallow-water fouling communities, dredged channels and artificial lagoons and also on the roots of the non-indigenous red mangrove, Rhizophora mangle (Ref. 3248).

Life cycle and mating behavior половая зрелость | размножение | нерест | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae

Adults are capable of asexual reproduction via fragmentation, many are sequentially hermaphroditic. Sexual reproduction occurs by capturing sperm released into the water by adjacent individuals and transporting it to the egg deep with in the aquiferous system.