Filellum antarcticum

Filellum antarcticum   (Hartlaub, 1904)


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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Hydrozoa | Leptothecata | Lafoeidae

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

Sessile; depth range 14 - 423 m (Ref. 7424).  Polar

Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions

Southeast Atlantic and the Antarctic: Antarctica and South Africa.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm

Short description Morphology

Stolonal colonies composed of stolons creeping on substratum and giving rise to sock-shaped hydrothecae, adnate to substratum to a varied degree. Adnate part of hydrothecae provided with striae on dorsal side; striation highly variable. Hydrothecal aperture circular, rim even. Cnidome composed of two kinds of nematocysts, small and large ones. Coppinia composed of a set of firmly adpressed gonothecae surrounded by a fence of long defensive tubes usually curved towards the centre of the gonothecal mass in such a way that they constitute a nest or corbula. Defensive tubes forked or unforked, provided with distal, circular aperture. Gonotheca tubular, basally truncated and with a distal, unraised, circular aperture, usually on a slightly raised, cone-shaped part. Eggs remaining on gonothecae, immersed in a sort of nourishing mass.

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Found at depths of 13.5 to 400 m (Ref. 7424).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae

Found with coppinia in January to February and June. Material was collected in December to February.

Main reference References | Coordinator | Collaborators

Peña Cantero, A.L., A. Svoboda and W. Vervoort. 2004. (Ref. 7424)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-2)

  Not Evaluated 

CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

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Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 0.2 - 10.5, mean 1.8 (based on 51 cells).
Price category (Ref. 80766): Unknown.

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