Pleroma menoui   Lévi & Lévi, 1983


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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Demospongiae | Lithistida | Pleromidae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Sessile; depth range 179 - 1131 m (Ref. 89546).  Tropical

Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions

Western Pacific. Tropical to temperate.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Attached to hard rocky substrata on continental shelf banks, along with an array of invertebrates such as other lithistid sponges, molluscs, bryozoans, brachiopods, echinoderms, hydroids, and stylasterid hydrocorals (Ref. 89546). Found on the upper slope (Ref. 106682). Filter-feeder (Ref. 68823).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae

Members of the class Demospongiae are hermaphroditic. Life cycle: The zygote develops into parenchymella larva (free-swimming) before settling down on a substrate where it grows into a young sponge.

Main reference References | Coordinator | Collaborators

Kelly, M. 2007. (Ref. 89546)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Not Evaluated 

CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless

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Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 8.3 - 17.2, mean 11.1 (based on 75 cells).