Neofibularia nolitangere, Touch-me-not sponge
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Neofibularia nolitangere   (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)

Touch-me-not sponge

Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050
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Neofibularia nolitangere  AquaMaps  Data sources: GBIF OBIS
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Classification / Names आम नाम | उपशब्द | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Demospongiae | Poecilosclerida | Desmacellidae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / गहराई सीमा / distribution range पारिस्थितिकी

; गहराई सीमा 2 - 70 m (संदर्भ 108813).  Tropical

Distribution देश | ऐफ ऐ ओ क्षेत्र | Ecosystems | संयोग | भूमिका

Western Central Atlantic.

Length at first maturity / आकार / Weight / Age

परिपक्व अवधि: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 80.0 cm WD पुल्लिंग / अलिंग; (संदर्भ 415)

Short description आकृति विज्ञान

Thick encrusting: 0.4 - 3 cm, or massive to large vases: up to 80 cm wide and high. Brown-red in color externally, tan internally. Surface varies from smooth and porous, to corrugated and micro hispid, somewhat velvety. Oscules dispersed: 0.3 - 0.6 cm wide. Firm but fragile (Ref. 415).

जीवविज्ञान     शब्द संग्रह (उदाहरणार्थ epibenthic)

Maximum depth reported taken from Ref. 128739. On reef environments, usually under 5 m deep (Ref. 415). Also found in mangroves (Ref. 86836). Dwells in coral reefs or rock pavements in shallow depths. Possibly associated with polychaete worms (Ref. 128739).

Life cycle and mating behavior परिपक्व अवधि | पुनरुत्पत्ति | मछलीऔ का अंडे देना | 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 संदर्भ | संयोजक | सहयोगीयो

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. (संदर्भ 415)

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


CITES status (संदर्भ 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (संदर्भ 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Human uses


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साधन

अधिक जानकारी

Trophic Ecology
Food items (preys)
संघटक आहार
आहार खपत
परभक्षी
पारिस्थितिकी
Population dynamics
बाढ़
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Length-weight rel.
Length-length rel.
Length-frequencies
Mass conversion
बहुतायत
Life cycle
पुनरुत्पत्ति
परिपक्व अवधि
Fecundity
मछलीऔ का अंडे देना
Eggs
Egg development
Larvae
Physiology
Oxygen consumption

इंटरनेट स्रोत

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, खोज) | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 23.6 - 28, mean 27 (based on 210 cells).
Fishing Vulnerability (संदर्भ 71543): Moderate to high vulnerability (52 of 100).
Price category (संदर्भ 80766): Unknown.