Spheciospongia vagabunda Vagabond Boring Sponge

Spheciospongia vagabunda is commonly referred to as Vagabond Boring Sponge. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for aquarium keeping. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

Profile

lexID:

2339 

AphiaID:

170563 

Scientific:

Spheciospongia vagabunda 

German:

Vagabund Bohrschwamm 

English:

Vagabond Boring Sponge 

Category:

Sponzen 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Clionaida (Order) > Clionaidae (Family) > Spheciospongia (Genus) > vagabunda (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Ridley, ), 1884 

Occurrence:

Halmahera Sea, (the) Maldives, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Australia, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo (Kalimantan), Caroline Island, Coral sea (Eastern Australia), East Africa, Fiji, Great Barrier Reef, Gulf of Aden, Hawaii, Houtman Abrolhos (Abrolhos Islands), India, Indo Pacific, Madagascar, Marschall Islands, Mozambique, New Caledonia, Northern Territory (Australia), Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Queensland (Australia), Red Sea, Singapore, Solomon Islands, South China Sea, South-Africa, Sri Lanka, The Chagos Archipelago (the Chagos Islands), Western Australia, Western Indian Ocean 

Marine Zone:

Subtidal, sublittoral, infralittoral, deep zone of the oceans from the lower limit of the intertidal zone (intertidal) to the shelf edge at about 200 m water depth. neritic. 

Sea depth:

0 - 100 Meter 

Habitats:

Coral reefs, Coral rubble substrate, Coralline soils, coral quarry, Lagoons, Rubble floors, Sandy sea floors, Seawater, Sea water 

Size:

up to 4.72" (12 cm) 

Temperature:

24,6 °F - 84.2 °F (24,6°C - 29°C) 

Food:

Filter feeder, Plankton, Suspension feeder 

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
  Grauer Mondschwamm
• Spheciospongia congenera
• Spheciospongia digitata
• Spheciospongia excentrica
• Spheciospongia florida
• Spheciospongia globularis
• Spheciospongia inconstans
• Spheciospongia incrustans
• Spheciospongia lacunosa
• Spheciospongia massa
• Spheciospongia mastoidea
• Spheciospongia montiformis
• Spheciospongia panis
• Spheciospongia papillosa
• Spheciospongia peleia
• Spheciospongia poculoides
• Spheciospongia potamophera
• Spheciospongia poterionides
• Spheciospongia purpurea
• Spheciospongia ramulosa
• Spheciospongia robusta
• Spheciospongia rotunda
• Spheciospongia ruetzleri
• Spheciospongia semilunaris
• Spheciospongia solida
• Spheciospongia spiculifera
• Spheciospongia symbiotica
• Spheciospongia tentorioides
• Spheciospongia transitoria
• 
  Spheciospongia vagabunda
  Vagabund Bohrschwamm
• Spheciospongia vesparium
• Alle anzeigen

 

More related species
in this lexicon:

• 
  Spheciospongia ndabazithe
  Meeresschwamm

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2007-07-28 20:29:41 

Last edit:

2025-12-25 23:15:02 

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