Rhopalaea crassa Blue Yellow-ringed Sea Squirt

Rhopalaea crassais commonly referred to as Blue Yellow-ringed Sea Squirt. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for aquarium keeping. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

Profile

lexID:

998 

AphiaID:

251321 

Scientific:

Rhopalaea crassa 

German:

Blaue Seescheide 

English:

Blue Yellow-ringed Sea Squirt 

Category:

Sea Squirts 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Ascidiacea (Class) > Aplousobranchia (Order) > Diazonidae (Family) > Rhopalaea (Genus) > crassa (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Herdman, ), 1880 

Occurrence:

Hong Kong, Australia, China, Coral sea (Eastern Australia), Guam, Indo Pacific, Indonesia, Japan, Madagascar, Micronesia, Moluccas, Mozambique, Northern Territory (Australia), Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Queensland (Australia), South-Pazific, Sri Lanka, Western Australia 

Sea depth:

6 - 260 Meter 

Size:

1.57" - 1.97" (4cm - 5cm) 

Temperature:

64.04 °F - 82.22 °F (17.8°C - 27.9°C) 

Food:

Amphipods, Copepods, Filter feeder, Plankton, Suspension feeder, Zooplankton 

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:

• 
  Rhopalaea abdominalis
  Riff-Seescheide
• Rhopalaea birkelandi
• 
  Rhopalaea circula
  Ring-Seescheide, Kreis-Seescheide
• 
  Rhopalaea crassa
  Blaue Seescheide
• Rhopalaea defecta
• Rhopalaea desme
• Rhopalaea fusca
• Rhopalaea hartmeyeri
• Rhopalaea meridionalis
• 
  Rhopalaea neapolitana
  Neapel-Seescheide
• Rhopalaea perlucida
• Rhopalaea piru
• Rhopalaea respiciens
• Rhopalaea sagamiana
• Rhopalaea tenuis
• Alle anzeigen

 

More related species
in this lexicon:

• 
  Rhopalaea idoneta
  Seescheide

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2004-09-25 21:53:34 

Last edit:

2023-06-06 11:56:02 

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