Belize country information

Common names: [No common name]
Occurrence: native
Salinity: brackish
Abundance: | Ref:
Importance: | Ref:
Aquaculture: never/rarely | Ref:
Regulations: no regulations | Ref:
Uses: no uses
Comments: Known from the mangrove ponds at Cat Cay, Manatee Cay and Fisherman's Cay, Pelican Cays (Ref. 86836, 87213) and Blue Ground Range (Ref. 86789). Inhabited by Leucothoe garifunae, Leucothoe saron (Ref. 82302), Leucothoe ashleyae and Leucothoe kensleyi (Ref. 86735). C: Ref. 82302, 83912, 86836, 87213; O: Ref. 86735, 86786, 86789.
National Checklist: Belize Biodiversity Information System - Fish
Country Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/bh.html
National Fisheries Authority: http://www.caricom-fisheries.com/belize-fisheries
Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Thomas, J.D. and K.N. Klebba, 2007
National Database:

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Black rope sponge, ... more

Classification / Names / Names Noms communs | Synonymes | Catalog of Fishes (gen., sp.) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS

> Poecilosclerida () > Iotrochotidae ()

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

; saumâtre; profondeur 1 - 91 m (Ref. 108813). Tropical

Distribution Pays | Zones FAO | Écosystèmes | Occurrences | Introductions

Indo-Pacific and Western Atlantic: Caribbean wide.

Length at first maturity / Taille / Poids / Âge

Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm Max length : 60.0 cm TL mâle / non sexé; (Ref. 415)

Description synthétique Morphologie

Sprawling ramose branches, with spiky surface up to 60 cm long; 1 - 5 cm wide. Black with green patches internally and externally. Oscula 0.1 - 0.3 cm in diameter, on side of branches (Ref. 415). Smaller specimens grows as lobes, runners, massive or encrusting. Surface: covered with conules; mostly or entirely smooth for small specimens. Sometimes greenish-yellow. Tough consistency; resilient and barely compressible. Exudate is dark purplish when squeezed. Oscules are scattered or in a row, slightly raised on small lobes and surrounded by a thin collar (Ref. 85482).

Reef; mangrove; seagrass environments (Ref. 415). On hard substrates, often hosting the zoanthid Parazoanthus swiftii (Ref. 85482). Commensal with amphipods (Ref. 82302).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturité | Reproduction | Frai | Œufs | Fécondité | Larves

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.

Référence principale Références | Coordinateur | Collaborateurs

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

Statut dans la liste rouge de l'IUCN (Ref. 130435)

Non évalué

statut CITES (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Menace pour l'homme

Harmless

Utilisations par l'homme

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Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 23.9 - 28.9, mean 27.5 (based on 1216 cells).

Vulnérabilité (Ref. 71543): Moderate vulnerability (44 of 100).

Catégorie de prix (Ref. 80766): Unknown.

Iotrochota birotulata (Hinggin, 1877)