Cliona delitrix   Pang, 1973

Red boring sponge

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

Demospongiae | Clionaida | Clionaidae

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

Sessile; depth range 2 - 22 m (Ref. 108813).  Tropical

Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions

Western Central Atlantic: Caribbean and USA.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm

Short description Morphology

Encrusting with round to oval shaped papillae; 0.2 - 0.5 cm wide; 0.1 - 0.2 cm high excavates several cm up to 10 cm into the coral rubble (Ref. 415). Encrustations may exceed 1 m across. Smooth surface, but dense with pore-bearing, flattened, circular, wart-like papillae. Orange to red-orange exterior, often with paler oscules. Interior is red-orange to red. Soft consistency, but hard to distinguish from the substrate. Oscules circular and scattered, 0.07 to 0.1 cm across, elevated on membranous collars up to 0.15 cm (Ref. 85482).

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Very common species on shallow to deeper reefs greater than 4 m deep (Ref. 415). Excavating on reefs (Ref. 85482).

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.

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. (Ref. 415)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  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

Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 25.1 - 28.2, mean 27 (based on 294 cells).
Price category (Ref. 80766): Unknown.