Neopetrosia proxima (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)

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

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Neopetrosia proxima AquaMaps Data sources: GBIF OBIS

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رده بندی / Names اسامي عام | مترادف | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Demospongiae | Haplosclerida | Petrosiidae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / تغييرات عمق / distribution range بوم شناسي

; لب شور; تغييرات عمق 53 - 60 m (مرجع 128739). Subtropical

Distribution كشورها | مناطق سازمان خوار و بار جهاني (FAO) | Ecosystems | ظهور | معرفي

Western Atlantic.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / سن

بلوغ: L_m ? range ? - ? cm Max length : 4.0 cm OT جنس نر / بدون خواص جنسي; (مرجع 415)

توصيف مختصر ريخت شناسي

Thick crusts: 1 - 4 cm in thickness, or sprawling masses with lobes. Color red-brown to pink externally and tan to yellowish internally. Oscules: 0.3 - 1 cm in diameter. Smooth surface, sometimes with zoanthids. Hard and fragile in consistency (Ref. 415). Porous surface, rugged with narrow conical to flattened protuberances. Dark greenish brown exteriorly, cream interior. Adhesive mucus exudate when animal is cut and touched. Flush oscules slightly elevated (Ref. 85482).

Maximum body thickness: 4 cm (Ref. 415). Common on sand and hard bottoms (Ref. 85482) of reef environments, coral rubble and seagrass beds (Ref. 415). Also found in mangroves (Ref. 86836). It hosts alpheid shrimps in its canals (Ref. 86626). Inhabits shallow rocky shores and reefs, deep reef habitats, caves, coralline algae reefs, and silted lower mesophotic reefs (Ref. 128739).

Life cycle and mating behavior بلوغ | تولید مثل | تخم ریزی | 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.