Leucothea pulchra, Orange-tipped sea gooseberry

Leucothea pulchra   Matsumoto, 1988

Orange-tipped sea gooseberry

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

Tentaculata | Lobata | Leucotheidae

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

Pelagic; depth range 0 - 200 m (Ref. 2376).  Subtropical

Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions

Eastern Pacific: Canada and USA.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Largest and delicate species of shallow lobates; swims slowly and horizontally during feeding, folding its folds into a tube and bringing the prey using its oral tentacles into its mouth; feeds on copepods and other small zooplankton (Ref. 2376).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae

Members of the phylum Ctenophora are hermaphroditic. Life cycle: Eggs develop into planktonic juveniles called cydippid and later gradually adopt the form of adults.

Main reference References | Coordinator | Collaborators

Cairns, S.D., D.R. Calder, A. Brinckmann-Voss, C.B. Castro, D.G. Fautin, P.R. Pugh, C.E. Mills, W.C. Jaap, M.N. Arai, S.H.D. Haddock and D.M. Opresko. 2003. (Ref. 1663)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-2)

  Not Evaluated 

CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

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Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 7.5 - 10.6, mean 8.6 (based on 39 cells).
Price category (Ref. 80766): Unknown.

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