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Hydroides elegans   (Haswell, 1883)

Calcareous tube worm

Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050
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United States (contiguous states) country information

Common names: [No common name]
Occurrence: native
Salinity: marine
Abundance: | Ref:
Importance: | Ref:
Aquaculture: | Ref:
Regulations: | Ref:
Uses: no uses
Comments: Known from South Carolina to the northern Gulf of Mexico (Ref. 7866). Known to be introduced to North America: east coast in 1954, to the gulf coast 1951 and a failed introduction in the west coast in 1929 (Ref. 3359).
National Checklist:
Country Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/us.html
National Fisheries Authority: http://www.nmfs.gov
Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Salazar-Vallejo, S.I., 1996
National Database:

Common names from other countries

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

> Sabellida () > Serpulidae ()

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

; djupintervall 0 - 3890 m (Ref. 102521).   Tropical

Utbredning Länder | FAO områden | Ekosystem | Förekomster | Utplanteringar

Circumglobal.

Length at first maturity / Size / Vikt / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm

Biologi     Ordlista (t.ex. epibenthic)

Notable in tropical and subtropical coastal fouling communities (Ref. 102523). Found among living corals as well as on the underside of dead corals. Buried in the skeleton of Montastraea sp. while also seen attached to a dead Pocillopora damicornis (Ref. 102066). Filter feeds to extract minute plankton and organic matter from water column (Ref. 107862).

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

Members of the class Polychaeta are gonochoric (sexual), gametes are spawned through the metanephridia or body wall rupturing.

Main reference referenser | Koordinator | Medarbetare

Coles, S.L., R.C. DeFelice, L.G. Eldredge and J.T. Carlton. 1999. (Ref. 3356)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)


CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Human uses


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Ytterligare information

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): 3 - 13, mean 4.8 (based on 2429 cells).
Price category (Ref. 80766): Unknown.