WoRMS taxon details
Clathria prolifera (Ellis & Solander, 1786)
AphiaID: 157373
AphiaID: 157373
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Poecilosclerida (Order) > Microcionina (Suborder) > Microcionidae (Family) > Microcioninae (Subfamily) > Clathria (Genus) |
| Status | alternate representation (subgenus assignment) | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Accepted name | Clathria (Clathria) prolifera (Ellis & Solander, 1786) | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Clathria Schmidt, 1862 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Ellis, J.; Solander, D. 1786. The Natural History of many curious and uncommon Zoophytes, collected from various parts of the Globe. Systematically arranged and described by the late Daniel Solander. 4.(Benjamin White & Son: London): 1-206, pls 1-63. [details] [full text]
basis of record: Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p. (look up in IMIS) [details] | ||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||
| Distribution | North West Atlantic [details] | ||||||||||
| Link | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Diet: suspension feeding. Captures minute particles of food on their collars and ingesting them. [details] Dimensions: up to 20 cm high [details] Distribution: Prince Edward Island (from the northern tip of Miscou Island, N.B. to Cape Breton Island south of Cheticamp, including the Northumberland Strait and Georges Bay to the Canso Strait causeway) [details] Habitat: infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details] Morphology: used to be called Clathria prolifera as per Linkletter, 1977; colour tomato-red in summer and fall; golden-brown in winter and spring [details] Predators: generally for group, most predators (crabs and other invertebrates), find sponges distasteful either because of a presumably offensive odor or because of their spicules. Predators do include littorinid snails and nudibranchs. [details] Reproduction: Asexual reproduction by buds and gemmules and sexual reproduction (internally) by eggs and sperm; free-swimming cilated larvae (in general, most species are believed to be hermaphroditic but may not produce male and female gametes simultaneously). [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:157373 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Clathria prolifera. In: Van Soest, R.W.M; Boury-Esnault, N.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Rützler, K.; de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez de Glasby, B.; Hajdu, E.; Pisera, A.B.; Manconi, R.; Schoenberg, C.; Janussen, D.; Tabachnick, K.R., Klautau, M.; Picton, B.; Kelly, M.; Vacelet, J.; Dohrmann, M.; Cristina Díaz, M. (2013) World Porifera database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=157373 on 2013-06-19 | |||||||||||
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