Advertisement

You can sponsor this page

Agelas conifera   (Schmidt, 1870)

Brown tube sponge

Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050
This map was computer-generated and has not yet been reviewed.
Agelas conifera  AquaMaps  Data sources: GBIF OBIS
Upload your photos 
Google image |

No photo available for this species.
No drawings available for Agelasidae.


Bahamas country information

Common names: [No common name]
Occurrence: native
Salinity: marine
Abundance: | Ref:
Importance: | Ref:
Aquaculture: never/rarely | Ref:
Regulations: no regulations | Ref:
Uses: no uses
Comments:
National Checklist:
Country Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/bf.html
National Fisheries Authority: http://www.caricom-fisheries.com/bahamas-fisheries
Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Lesser, M.P., 2006
National Database:

Common names from other countries

Classification / Names / Names Populärnamn | synonymer | Catalog of Fishes (gen., sp.) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS

> Agelasida () > Agelasidae ()

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

Revassocierade; brackvatten; djupintervall 9 - 12 m (Ref. 108813).   Tropical

Utbredning Länder | FAO områden | Ekosystem | Förekomster | Utplanteringar

Western Central Atlantic.

Length at first maturity / Size / Vikt / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 50.0 cm TL hane/ej könsbestämd; (Ref. 415)

Short description Morfologi

Laterally fused tubes running on branches (Ref. 81728): up to 50 cm long, 10 - 20 cm in diameter. Light to purplish brown externally, yellow to tan internally. The surface is smooth, with meandering groves occasionally. Oscules on the inner walls of the tubes few millimeters in diameter (Ref. 415).

Biologi     Ordlista (t.ex. epibenthic)

Coral reefs, usually below 10 m in depth (Ref. 415). Also occurs in mangrove ponds (Ref. 86789).

Life cycle and mating behavior Könsmognad | Reproduktion | Lek | Ägg | Fecundity | Larver

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.

Main reference referenser | Koordinator | Medarbetare

Collin, R., M.C. Díaz, J. Norenburg, R.M. Rocha, J.A. Sánchez, M. Schulze, A. Schwartz and A. Valdés. 2005. (Ref. 415)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)


CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless

Human uses


| FishSource |

Verktyg

Ytterligare information

Länder
FAO områden
Ekosystem
Förekomster
Utplanteringar
Stocks
Ekologi
Föda
Födoslag
Populärnamn
synonymer
Predatorer
Reproduktion
Könsmognad
Lek
Fecundity
Ägg
Egg development
Age/Size
Tillväxt
Length-weight
Length-length
Morfologi
Larver
Abundans
referenser
Mass conversion

Internet-källor

BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(Publication : search) | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Tree of Life | Wikipedia (Go, sök) | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 26.1 - 28.1, mean 27 (based on 188 cells).
Vulnerability (Ref. 71543): Moderate vulnerability (40 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766): Unknown.