Halophila ovalis, Spoon seagrass
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Halophila ovalis   (R. Brown) Hooker fil.

Spoon seagrass

Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050
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Halophila ovalis  AquaMaps  Data sources: GBIF OBIS
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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Magnoliopsida | Alismatales | Hydrocharitaceae

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

Sessile; depth range 2 - 79 m (Ref. 103539).  Tropical

Distribution Territories | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions

Indo-West Pacific.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Found on more sheltered muddy substrates. Rare intertidally but extends down to 28 m. Grazed by fish, dugongs and turtles (Ref. 801).

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Members of the phylum Bryozoa are hermaphroditic. Both fertilization and egg brooding may either be internal or external.

Main reference References | Coordinator | Collaborators

UNEP 2004 Seagrass in the South China Sea. UNEP/GEF/SCS Technical Publication No. 3. (Ref. 84510)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))

  Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 17 October 2007

CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless

Human uses


FAO - Publication: search | FishSource |

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BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO - Publication: search | Fishipedia | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | AlgaeBase | Tree of Life | Wikipedia (Go, Search) | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Fishing Vulnerability
(Ref. 71543)		 (0 of 100).