Haliclona caerulea, Blue Caribbean sponge
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Haliclona caerulea   (Hechtel, 1965)

Blue Caribbean sponge

Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050
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Haliclona caerulea  AquaMaps  Data sources: GBIF OBIS
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Classification / Names Κοινά ονόματα | Συνώνυμα | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Demospongiae | Haplosclerida | Chalinidae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / εύρος βάθους / distribution range Οικολογία

Υφαλόφιλο(α); Υφάλμυρο; εύρος βάθους 1 - 6 m (Αναφ. 108813).  Tropical

Distribution Χώρες | Περιοχές FAO | Οικοσυστήματα | Παρουσίες | Εισαγωγές

Pacific Ocean and Western Central Atlantic.

Length at first maturity / Μέγεθος / Weight / Age

Γεννητική Ωρίμανση: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm

Short description Μορφολογία

Thickly encrusting or massive with irregular, solid form. Raised thick-walled volcano-shaped oscules reaching several centimeters in height. Exterior is pale blue-green, while interior is dirty yellow in color. Soft and easily torn, even, slightly smooth surface similar to a fine sandpaper. Megascleres are bent oxeas, 170 to 230 micrometers and microscleres are sharply curved C-shaped sigmas about 25 micrometers.

Βιολογία     Γλωσσάρι (π.χ. epibenthic)

Author and year from Ref. 3248. Mainly restricted to shallow-water fouling communities, dredged channels and artificial lagoons and also on the roots of the non-indigenous red mangrove, Rhizophora mangle (Ref. 3248).

Life cycle and mating behavior Γεννητική Ωρίμανση | Αναπαραγωγή | Γεννοβολία | Eggs | Γονιμότητα | Larvae

Adults are capable of asexual reproduction via fragmentation, many are sequentially hermaphroditic. Sexual reproduction occurs by capturing sperm released into the water by adjacent individuals and transporting it to the egg deep with in the aquiferous system.

Main reference Αναφορές | Συντονιστής | Συνεργάτες

DeFelice, R.C., L.G. Eldredge and J.T. Carlton 2001 Nonindigenous marine invertebrates. p. B-i-B-60. In Eldredge, G.L. and C.M. Smith. A Guidebook of Marine Species in Hawaii. Bishop Museum Technical Report 21. (Αναφ. 3248)

IUCN Red List Status (Αναφ. 130435: Version 2025-1)


CITES status (Αναφ. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Αναφ. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Human uses


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Τροφική Οικολογία
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Οικολογία
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Αφθονία
Life cycle
Αναπαραγωγή
Γεννητική Ωρίμανση
Γονιμότητα
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Egg development
Larvae
Physiology
Κατανάλωση οξυγόνου

Διαδικτυακές πηγές

BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(Publication : search) | Fishipedia | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Δέντρο Ζωής | Wikipedia (Go, αναζήτηση) | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 26.6 - 29.2, mean 27.7 (based on 949 cells).
Price category (Αναφ. 80766): Unknown.