Common names from other countries
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecologia
Associadas(os) a recifes; estuarina; intervalo de profundidade 0 - 100 m (Ref. 101942). Subtropical
Western Atlantic and Western Central Pacific.
Length at first maturity / Tamanho / Peso / Idade
Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 2.0 cm BRW macho/indeterminado; (Ref. 415)
Ramose to massive-encrusting. Branches: 1 - 2 cm wide. Light grayish, pink or purple, externally, lighter internally. Surface from smooth to extremely spiny, with or without zooanthids. Oscules: 0.2 - 0.7 cm in diameter. Spongy but tough in consistency (Ref. 415).
At Bocas, common both in the reef and in the mangroves (Ref. 415). Commensal with amphipods (Ref. 82302, 86735). Inhabits coralline algae reef, algal nodules, and lower mesophotic reefs (Ref. 128739).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturidade | Reprodução | Desova | Ovos | Fecundidade | Larvas
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.
Collin, R., M.C. Díaz, J. Norenburg, R.M. Rocha, J.A. Sánchez, M. Schulze, A. Schwartz and A. Valdés. 2005. (Ref. 415)
Categoria na Lista Vermelha da IUCN (Ref. 130435)
Categoria CITES (Ref. 108899)
Not Evaluated
Not Evaluated
Utilização humana
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Ferramentas
Fontes da internet
Estimates based on models
Preferred temperature
(Ref.
115969): 14.7 - 28.6, mean 26.1 (based on 1344 cells).
Vulnerabilidade
Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
Categoria de preço
Unknown.