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Spheciospongia purpurea purple boring sponge, orangered boring sponge

Spheciospongia purpureais commonly referred to as purple boring sponge, orangered boring sponge. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for aquarium keeping. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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lexID:
2339 
AphiaID:
170551 
Scientific:
Spheciospongia purpurea 
German:
Orangeroter Bohrschwamm 
English:
Purple Boring Sponge, Orangered Boring Sponge 
Category:
Marine Sponges 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Clionaida (Order) > Clionaidae (Family) > Spheciospongia (Genus) > purpurea (Species) 
Initial determination:
(Lamarck, ), 1815 
Occurrence:
Great Australian Bigh, Indo Pacific, Indonesia, New South Wales (Australia), Victoria (Australia), Western Australia, Western Pacific Ocean 
Sea depth:
1 - 30 Meter 
Size:
up to 11.81" (30 cm) 
Temperature:
75.2 °F - 80.6 °F (24°C - 27°C) 
Food:
Plankton 
Difficulty:
Not suitable for aquarium keeping 
Offspring:
Not available as offspring 
Toxicity:
Toxic hazard unknown 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Red List:
Not evaluated (NE) 
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
  • Spheciospongia albida
  • Spheciospongia alcyonoides
  • Spheciospongia areolata
  • Spheciospongia australis
  • Spheciospongia capensis
  • Spheciospongia carnosa
  • Spheciospongia confoederata
    Schwamm
  • Spheciospongia congenera
  • Spheciospongia digitata
  • Spheciospongia excentrica
 
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Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2021-09-12 21:35:07 

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Spheciospongia purpurea (Lamarck, 1815)

Spheciospongia purpurea is a boring sponge. Drilling sponges drill into limestone, coral, mussel and snail shells with the help of corrosive substances, depending on the species.
These sponges live in drilled chambers that communicate with each other. Drilled sponges are thus involved in the degradation of coral reefs.

The sponge is host to the barnacle Membranobalanus porphyrophilus.

This boring sponge colonizes reef slopes where it encrusts live and dead corals.

Synonyms:
Alcyonium purpureum Lamarck, 1815
Spirastrella bonneti Topsent, 1906
Spirastrella purpurea (Lamarck, 1815)

External links

  1. Atlas of Living Australia (en). Abgerufen am 12.09.2021.
  2. Description of a new species of Membranobalanus (Crustacea, Cirripedia) from southern Australia (en). Abgerufen am 12.09.2021.
  3. Port Philip Bay (en). Abgerufen am 12.09.2021.
  4. World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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