Echinoclathria dichotoma Tree sponge

Echinoclathria dichotomais commonly referred to as Tree sponge. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for home aquaria!.

Johan Swanepoel, Südafrika

Echinoclathria dichotoma (Tree sponge)

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lexID:: 10662
AphiaID:: 167916

Scientific:: Echinoclathria dichotoma
German:: Schwamm
English:: Tree Sponge

Category:: Marine Sponges

Family tree:: Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Poecilosclerida (Order) > Microcionidae (Family) > Echinoclathria (Genus) > dichotoma (Species)
Initial determination:: (Lévi, ), 1963

Occurrence:: South-Africa
Sea depth:: 8 - 43 Meter
Size:: 3.94" - 7.09" (10cm - 18cm)
Temperature:: 57.2 °F - 64.4 °F (14°C - 18°C)
Food:: Filter feeder, Plankton
Difficulty:: Not suitable for home aquaria!

CITES:

Not evaluated

Red List:

Not evaluated (NE)

Related species at Catalog of Life:

Echinoclathria arborea
Echinoclathria arcifera
Echinoclathria atlantica
Echinoclathria axinelloides
Echinoclathria bergquistae
Echinoclathria beringensis
Echinoclathria chalinoides
Echinoclathria confragosa
Echinoclathria contexta
Echinoclathria dichotoma
Schwamm
Echinoclathria digitata
Echinoclathria digitiformis
Echinoclathria egena
Echinoclathria gibbosa
Echinoclathria inornata
Echinoclathria leporina
Echinoclathria levii
Echinoclathria minor
Echinoclathria nodosa
Echinoclathria notialis
Echinoclathria noto
Echinoclathria oxeata
Echinoclathria papyracea
Echinoclathria parkeri
Echinoclathria retepora
Echinoclathria reticulata
Echinoclathria riddlei
Echinoclathria rimosa
Echinoclathria robusta
Echinoclathria subhispida
Echinoclathria translata
Echinoclathria vasa
Echinoclathria waldoschmitti

Author:: Meerwasser-Lexikon Team
Publisher:: Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:: 2017-04-22 17:40:14
Last edit:: 2017-04-23 11:47:09

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Echinoclathria dichotoma (Lévi, 1963)

Echinoclathria dichotoma is bright red in colour. It grows upright and branches like a tree.The surface is smooth .The oscula are not conspicuous.Tips of branches rounded. This sponge is often colonised by the sponge zoanthid Parazoanthus.

Echinoclathria dichotoma is a filderfeeder.

This sponge is known from the west coast of South Africa to Cape Agulhas. It is endemic to this region.

Synonym:
Ophlitaspongia dichotoma

Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Heteroscleromorpha (Subclass) > Poecilosclerida (Order) > Microcionidae (Family) > Ophlitaspongiinae (Subfamily) > Echinoclathria (Genus) > Echinoclathria dichotoma (Species)

External links

Eastern Cape Scuba Diving (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
Wikipedia (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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