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Tethya actinia de Laubenfels, 1950
| Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050 |
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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS
Demospongiae | Tethyida | Tethyidae
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology
Sessile; brackish; depth range 1 - 20 m (Ref. 108813). Tropical
Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions
Western Central Atlantic.
Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ? range ? - ? cm Max length : 7.0 cm WD male/unsexed; (Ref. 415)
Short description Morphology
Globular, up to about 7 cm in diameter. Emerald to drab green, occasionally orange externally, lighter to orange internally. Tough, somewhat compressible. Verrucose surface. Volcano shaped oscules with transparent membranes less than 0.5 cm wide. Some specimens are covered with thin processes, and occasionally with buds (Ref. 415).
Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae
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
References | Coordinator | Collaborators
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: Version 2024-1)
CITES status (Ref. 108899)
Not Evaluated
CMS (Ref. 116361)
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
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References
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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, Search) | Zoological Record
Estimates based on models
Preferred temperature
(Ref. 115969): 23.8 - 28.3, mean 27.2 (based on 413 cells).
Price category
(Ref. 80766):
Unknown.