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Agelas conifera Brown Tube Sponge

Agelas coniferais commonly referred to as Brown Tube Sponge. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for home aquaria!.

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lexID:
3732 
AphiaID:
164824 
Scientific:
Agelas conifera 
German:
Brauner Tubenschwamm 
English:
Brown Tube Sponge 
Category:
Marine Sponges 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Agelasida (Order) > Agelasidae (Family) > Agelas (Genus) > conifera (Species) 
Initial determination:
(Schmidt, ), 1870 
Occurrence:
Adriatic Sea (Mediterranean), Belize, Bermuda, Florida, Honduras, The Bahamas, the Caribbean, the Mediterranean Sea 
Size:
up to 35.43" (90 cm) 
Temperature:
71.6 °F - 80.6 °F (22°C - 27°C) 
Food:
Phytoplankton, Plankton, Zooplankton 
Difficulty:
Not suitable for home aquaria! 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
 
More related species
in this lexicon:
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2011-05-28 10:32:12 

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Agelas conifera, also known as the brown tube sponge, is a species of sponge. Its color is brown, tan, or greyish brown with a lighter interior. It is common in the Caribbean and Bahamas, and occasional in Florida

Scientific paper

  1. Bromoageliferin and dibromoageliferin, secondary metabolites from the marine sponge Agelas conifera, inhibit voltage-operated, but not store-operated calcium entry in PC12 cells, Ulf Bickmeyer, 2005
  2. Localization and ecological significance of oroidin and sceptrin in the Caribbean sponge Agelas conifera, E Richelle-Maurer; M.J De Kluijver; S Feio; S Gaudêncio; H Gaspar; R Gomez; R Tavares; G Van de Vyver; R.W.M Van Soest, 2003
  3. Debromosceptrin, an Alkaloid from the Caribbean Sponge Agelas conifera, Shen, Xiaoyu; Perry, Tony L.; Dunbar, Chuck D.; Kelly-Borges, Michelle; Hamann, Mark T. , 1998
  4. Bioactive bromopyrrole metabolites from the Caribbean sponge Agelas conifera [Erratum to document cited in CA114(19):182417u], Keifer, Paul A.; Schwartz, Robert E.; Koker, Moustapha E. S.; Hughes, Robert G.; Rittschof, Dan; Rinehart, Kenneth L. , 1991
  5. Bioactive bromopyrrole metabolites from the Caribbean sponge Agelas conifera [Erratum to document cited in CA114(19):182417u], Keifer, Paul A.; Schwartz, Robert E.; Koker, Moustapha E. S.; Hughes, Robert G.; Rittschof, Dan; Rinehart, Kenneth L. , 1991

External links

  1. The Sponge Guide (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  2. Tierlexikon (de). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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