Monanchora arbuscula (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)

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

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Monanchora arbuscula AquaMaps Data sources: GBIF OBIS

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Monanchora arbuscula

Classification / Names Tên thường gặp | Các synonym ( Các tên trùng) | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Demospongiae | Poecilosclerida | Crambeidae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / Mức độ sâu / distribution range Sinh thái học

Cùng sống ở rạn san hô; Thuộc về nước lợ; Mức độ sâu 2 - 58 m (Tài liệu tham khảo 108813). Tropical

Distribution Các nước | Các khu vực của FAO | Các hệ sinh thái | Những lần xuất hiện | Những chỉ dẫn

Western Atlantic.

Length at first maturity / Bộ gần gũi / Weight / Age

Chín muồi sinh dục: L_m ? range ? - ? cm Max length : 80.0 cm H con đực/không giới tính; (Tài liệu tham khảo 415)

Short description Hình thái học

Encrusting, massive: 0.2 - 4 cm or ramose: 50 - 80 cm high. Dark red externally and internally. Surface has a transparent-whitish membrane, with radial canals that converge in oscula: 0.3 - 2 cm in diameter (Ref. 415). Low or tall masses in bushy, rounded or fan-shaped forms; occassional short tube-like lobes ending in oscules. Short, irregular branched extensions, or ridges or lumps, supported by subdermal skeletal elements. Elevated oscules. Transparent exhalant canal systems may converge around oscules, revealing red to red-orange interior color, but collapses and becomes inconspicuos when animal is taken out of water. Soft tissue consistency; exudate stains fingers when handled. Tough skeleton. Plumose tracts of the principal subtylostyles support encrusting specimens at the base; while a central meshwork of plumose spicules surrounded by spongin are present in thicker, bushy, massive and fan-shaped specimens (Ref. 85482).

Common on species in shallow reefs. In cryptic habitats it grows as thin crust (Ref. 415); may encrust dead corals, mollusk shells and gorgonian axes. Also on hard bottoms (Ref. 85482) and mangrove ponds (Ref. 86789).

Life cycle and mating behavior Chín muồi sinh dục | Sự tái sinh sản | Đẻ trứng | Eggs | Sự sinh sản | 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.