Aspidosiphon elegans
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Aspidosiphon elegans   (Chamisso & Eysenhardt, 1821)


Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050
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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Not assigned | Sipuncula | Aspidosiphonidae

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

Benthic.  Tropical

Distribution Territories | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions

Western Atlantic, Indo-Pacific and the Mediterranean. Tropical and subtropical.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 5.7 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 1840)

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Neritic; commonly burrows in coral rubble (Ref. 415) soft rock, or dead coral in shallow waters (Ref. 775 and 1840). Known as a benthic species (Ref. 85346). Shallow water; burrowing in coral rubble or soft rock; common (Ref. 415). Lives in dead coral and soft rock in shallow waters (Refs. 775, 1840). Coral reefs (Ref. 116123).

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Main reference References | Coordinator | Collaborators

Collin, R., M.C. Díaz, J. Norenburg, R.M. Rocha, J.A. Sánchez, M. Schulze, A. Schwartz and A. Valdés 2005 Photographic identification guide to some common marine invertebrates of Bocas Del Toro, Panama. Caribbean Journal of Science. 41(3):638-707. (Ref. 415)

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

  Not Evaluated 

CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

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

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Fishing Vulnerability
(Ref. 71543)		 Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
Price category
(Ref. 80766):		 Unknown.