Common names from other countries
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecologie
Rifbewoner; diepteverspreiding 0 - 12 m (Ref. 122). Tropical
Indo-Pacific.
Length at first maturity / Size / Gewicht / Leeftijd
Maturity: Lm ?, range 12 - ? cm Max length : 36.0 cm TL mannelijk/geslacht niet bekend; (Ref. 101468); common length : 20.0 cm TL mannelijk/geslacht niet bekend; (Ref. 122); Maximaal gepubliceerd gewicht: 1.0 kg (Ref. 418)
Body width: 10 cm. Maximum weight: 1000 g (Ref. 418); 300 g. Body thickness: 0.7 cm. Elongate, arched dorsally (bivium) and flattened ventrally (trivium). Bivium sometimes wrinkled and covered by sediment; wider in the middle; tapering towards both ends. Papillae on bivium long and slender; podia on trivium arranged more or less regularly in 3 rows calcareous disc surrounded by 5 anal teeth. Calcareous ring with large radial pieces and narrow interradial. Cuvierian tubules few (10); short, pink, and never expelled. Bivium is brown, varying from light to dark among specimens; trivium lighter, sometime orange, with yellow podia. Ventral tegument with a variety of small rosettes and rods, occasionally perforated; dorsal tegument with larger rosettes and branched plates; ventral podia with some straight, spinous rods; tentacles with rods large, straight , or curved, and very spiny at their extremities (Ref. 122).
Harvested in artisanal fisheries throughout the Western Central Pacific. Processed product is not distinguished from those of other Actinopyga species and has a moderate commercial value. Collected by hand while wading on the reefs at low tide (Ref. 122). Dwells in moderately shallow waters (despite its English common name), in sandy areas with large amounts of coral rubble; mostly on reef flats of fringing and lagoon-islet reefs; abundant in seagrass beds, on rubble flats, and compact flats where populations can reach high densities (up to 1/m) (Ref. 122); it attaches to rocks with its tube feet (Ref. 118).
Sexual reproduction takes place during warm season. A species with a high potential fecundity and early sexual maturity (Ref. 122).
Conand, C. 1998. (Ref. 122)
Status op de Rode Lijst van het IUCN (Ref. 130435)
Status bij CITES (Ref. 108899)
Not Evaluated
Not Evaluated
Gebruik door de mens
Visserij: commercieel
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Estimates based on models
Preferred temperature
(Ref.
115969): 25 - 29.3, mean 28.4 (based on 3693 cells).
Weerstandsvermogen
laag, minimale populatieverdubbelingstijd 4,5-14 jaar (K=0.09).
Kwetsbaarheid
Low vulnerability (25 of 100).
Prijsklasse
Unknown.
