Demospongiae |
Tethyida |
Tethyidae
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Sessile. Temperate
Northeast Atlantic and Indo-West Pacific.
Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Rounded elevations and depressions on surface, with elevations echinated by the spicules. Tesselation absent. Megasclere: rounded base; apex usually blunt but sometimes sharp; styli faintly tylote, no oxea nor strongyla. Microsclere: very small chiasters; larger and more massive spherasters. Chiasters are most abundant at the surface, forming a close layer, rays: 6 to 9. Spherasters rarely spined; unevenly scattered through the ectosome; rare in the choanosome.
Known from rock pools (Ref. 88951).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | 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.
Hooper, J.N.A., J.A. Kennedy and R.W.M. van Soest. 2000. (Ref. 81108)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)
CITES status (Ref. 108899)
Not Evaluated
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
Human uses
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Estimates based on models
Preferred temperature
(Ref.
115969): 10 - 13.2, mean 11.5 (based on 186 cells).
Price category
Unknown.