Calcarea |
Leucosolenida |
Sycettidae
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Sessile; depth range 3 - 100 m (Ref. 834). Temperate
Northwest Atlantic and Northern Pacific: Amphi-boreal, Canada, British Colombia, Japan and Russian Federation.
Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ? range ? - ? cm
Rocky, stony, silt-sandy (adjacent to the river mouth), pebble, and shell rock ground (Ref. 834).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae
Members of the class Calcarea are hermaphroditic. Life cycle: The zygote develops into either coeloblastula or amphiblastula larva (free-swimming) before settling down on a substrate where it grows into a young sponge.
Khodakovskaya, A.V. 2003 Fauna of calcareous sponges (Calcarea in Russian Waters) of the Sea of Japan. Russian Journal of Marine Biology 29(4):201-205. (Ref. 834)
IUCN Red List Status
(Ref. 130435: Version 2025-1)
CITES status (Ref. 108899)
Not Evaluated
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
Harmless
Human uses
| FishSource |
Tools
More information
Trophic EcologyFood items (preys)
Diet composition
Food consumption
Predators
Population dynamicsGrowth
Max. ages / sizes
Length-weight rel.
Length-length rel.
Length-frequencies
Mass conversion
Abundance
Life cycleReproductionMaturityFecunditySpawningEggsEgg developmentLarvae PhysiologyOxygen consumption
Human RelatedStamps, coins, misc.
Internet sources
Estimates based on models
Preferred temperature
(Ref.
115969): 1 - 14.8, mean 3.5 (based on 769 cells).
Price category
Unknown.
