Ectyoplasia ferox, Brown encrusting octopus sponge

Ectyoplasia ferox   (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)

Brown encrusting octopus sponge

Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050
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Ectyoplasia ferox  AquaMaps  Data sources: GBIF OBIS
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Classification / Names Κοινά ονόματα | Συνώνυμα | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Demospongiae | Axinellida | Raspailiidae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / εύρος βάθους / distribution range Οικολογία

Υφαλόφιλο(α); Υφάλμυρο; εύρος βάθους 2 - 60 m (Αναφ. 108813).  Tropical

Distribution Χώρες | Περιοχές FAO | Οικοσυστήματα | Παρουσίες | Εισαγωγές

Western Atlantic.

Length at first maturity / Μέγεθος / Weight / Age

Γεννητική Ωρίμανση: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm

Short description Μορφολογία

Growth forms varies from thick encrustations more than 1 cm thick, to irregular interconnected encrusting lobes, globular masses, fused groups of conical to chimney-like tubes, or irregular branches reaching 35 cm in height and 3 cm in width. Surface either smooth and finely porous with many fine perforations, or finely rugose. May also be slimy and corrugated out of water. Exterior is commonly orange-brown, but may also be yellow-orange, orange, yellowish-brown or red-orange. Yellow to cream interior. Firm and brittle consistency. Mucus exudate rare. Oscules flush or elevated on conical lobes or tubes with a yellow collar membrane, may be evenly spaced, scattered, or in rows that fuse together into low ridges. May be surrounded by fine radiating grooves (Ref. 85482).

Βιολογία     Γλωσσάρι (π.χ. epibenthic)

Maximum depth reported taken from Ref. 128739. Occurs on coral reefs, hard bottoms, lagoons (Ref. 85482), and mangroves (Ref. 86836). It hosts alpheid shrimps in its canals (Ref. 83410). Inhabits coralline algae reefs, coral communities, algal nodules, shallow coral and lower mesophotic reefs (Ref. 128739).

Life cycle and mating behavior Γεννητική Ωρίμανση | Αναπαραγωγή | Γεννοβολία | Eggs | Γονιμότητα | Larvae

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 Αναφορές | Συντονιστής | Συνεργάτες

Engel, S. and J.R. Pawlik 2005 Interactions among Florida sponges. I. Reef habitats. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 303:133-144. (Αναφ. 837)

IUCN Red List Status (Αναφ. 130435: Version 2025-1)


CITES status (Αναφ. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Αναφ. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Human uses


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Διαδικτυακές πηγές

BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(Publication : search) | Fishipedia | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Δέντρο Ζωής | Wikipedia (Go, αναζήτηση) | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 24.8 - 28.2, mean 27.3 (based on 519 cells).
Price category (Αναφ. 80766): Unknown.