Symbion pandora   Funch & Kristensen, 1995


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

Eucycliophora | Symbiida | Symbiidae

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

Host; depth range 20 - 40 m (Ref. 19).  Temperate

Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions

Northeast Atlantic.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 0.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 1173)

Short description Morphology

Acoelomate, bilaterally symmetrical and with differentiated cuticle marine metazoan. Compound cilia for filter feeding working as a downstream-collecting system.

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Inhabits the mouth appendages of Norway lobsters (Nephrops norvegicus) with carapace lengths of greater than 3.5 mm. Commensal with lobster. Feeding stages alternating with brief, non-feeding, free-swimming stages. Sessile, solitary feeding stages with multiciliated cells in the gut, anus just behind a ciliated mouth ring, and internal budding with extensive regeneration of feeding apparatus (Ref. 376).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae

Brooding of asexual larva (Pandora larva), male and female. Females brooding chordoid larva with a mesodermal, ventral rod of plate-like muscle cells (chordoid structure) and a pair of protonephridia with multiciliated terminal.

Main reference References | Coordinator | Collaborators

Obst, M. and P. Funch. 2005. (Ref. 376)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Not Evaluated 

CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless

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Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 5.4 - 10.7, mean 9.4 (based on 94 cells).
Vulnerability (Ref. 71543): Moderate to high vulnerability (50 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766): Unknown.