Haliclona tubifera (George & Wilson, 1919)

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

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Haliclona tubifera AquaMaps Data sources: GBIF OBIS

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Classification / Names आम नाम | उपशब्द | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Demospongiae | Haplosclerida | Chalinidae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / गहराई सीमा / distribution range पारिस्थितिकी

; खारा; गहराई सीमा 1 - 10 m (संदर्भ 108813). Tropical; 25°C - 33°C (संदर्भ 86836)

Distribution देश | ऐफ ऐ ओ क्षेत्र | Ecosystems | संयोग | भूमिका

Western Central Atlantic: Caribbean.

Length at first maturity / आकार / Weight / Age

परिपक्व अवधि: L_m ? range ? - ? cm Max length : 0.5 cm OT पुल्लिंग / अलिंग; (संदर्भ 415)

Short description आकृति विज्ञान

Cushion-like: less than 0.5 cm thickness with oscular chimneys; 0.5 - 5 cm long. Thin long proliferations branching off the main body; 0.1 - 0.2 cm wide, several cm long. Highly variable color from pink, to violet, or purple externally and internally. Oscules: 0.05 - 0.1 cm wide (Ref. 415). Surface smooth to the eye, but faintly hispid and distinctly porous. Soft, compressible and limp; easily damaged. Occasionally light brownish. Exudate absent (Ref. 85482).

Maximum thickness: less than 0.5 cm (Ref. 415). Depth range from Belize and Panama (Ref. 86836). Found on reef flats, and on rocks in shallow water. Very common on lagoon bottoms and on mangrove roots (Ref. 85482).

Life cycle and mating behavior परिपक्व अवधि | पुनरुत्पत्ति | मछलीऔ का अंडे देना | 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.