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Crambe crambe Red Encrusting Sponge, Orange-Red Encrusting Sponge, Bumping Encrusting Sponge

Crambe crambe is commonly referred to as Red Encrusting Sponge, Orange-Red Encrusting Sponge, Bumping Encrusting Sponge. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for aquarium keeping. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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lexID:
3764 
AphiaID:
133445 
Scientific:
Crambe crambe 
German:
Orangeroter-Krustenschwamm, Höckeriger Krustenschwamm 
English:
Red Encrusting Sponge, Orange-Red Encrusting Sponge, Bumping Encrusting Sponge 
Category:
Sponzen 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Poecilosclerida (Order) > Crambeidae (Family) > Crambe (Genus) > crambe (Species) 
Initial determination:
(Schmidt, ), 1862 
Occurrence:
Straße von Gibraltar, Tunesien, the Black Sea, the North Sea, Adriatic Sea (Mediterranean), Alborán Sea (Mediterranean Sea), English Channel, European Coasts, Greece, Ionian Sea (Mediterranean), Italy, Levantine Sea (Mediterranean), Macquarie Island, Madeira, Sardinia, Spain, The Aegan Sea (Mediterranean), the Mediterranean Sea, Turkey, 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:
5 - 30 Meter 
Habitats:
Aquaculture, Coral reefs, Light-filled living space, Rocky reefs, Rocky, hard seabeds, Shaded habitats 
Size:
up to 39.37" (100 cm) 
Temperature:
64.4 °F - 73.4 °F (18°C - 23°C) 
Food:
Bacteria (Bacterioplankton), Filter feeder, Microalgae , Organic suspended sediment , 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:
  • Crambe acuata
  • Crambe aculeolata
  • Crambe amabilis
  • Crambe amarilla
  • Crambe arborea
  • Crambe armena
  • Crambe aspera
  • Crambe chilensis
  • Crambe cordifolia
  • Crambe crambe
    Orangeroter-Krustenschwamm, Höckeriger Krustenschwamm
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2025-08-31 21:58:25 

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Crambe crambe (Schmidt, 1862)

Crambe crambe commonly occurs in well-lit waters on hard substrate at depths of 5 to 30 m.

Similar to Spirastrella cunctatrix.

Synonymised names:
Clathria (Clathria) labyrinthica (Schmidt, 1864) (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Clathria labyrinthica (Schmidt, 1864) (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Crambe ambigua (Sarà, 1960) (junior synonym)
Desmacidon harpago Vosmaer, 1880 (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Dictyonella labyrinthica (Schmidt, 1864) (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Hemimycale ambigua Sarà, 1960 (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Hemimycale brevicuspis (Topsent, 1892) (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Plicatella labyrinthica (Schmidt, 1864) (genus transfer & junior synonym)
Reniera labyrinthica Schmidt, 1864 (genus transfer & junior synonym)
Stylinos brevicuspis Topsent, 1892 (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Suberites arcicola Schmidt, 1862 (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Suberites crambe Schmidt, 1862 (genus transfer)
Suberites fruticosus Schmidt, 1862 (genus transfer & junior synonym)
Tetranthella fruticosa (Schmidt, 1862) (genus transfer and junior synonym)

External links

  1. Chemically-mediated interactions in benthic organisms: the chemical ecology of Crambe crambe (Porifera, Poecilosclerida) (en). Abgerufen am 10.11.2021.
  2. Growth dynamics and mortality of the encrusting sponge Crambe crambe (Poecilosclerida) in contrasting habitats: correlation with population structure and investment in defence (en). Abgerufen am 31.08.2025.
  3. Long-term experimental in situ farming of Crambe crambe (Demospongiae: Poecilosclerida) (en). Abgerufen am 31.08.2025.
  4. Wikipedia (en). Abgerufen am 30.09.2021.
  5. WoRMS (en). Abgerufen am 30.09.2021.

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Bumpy Encrusting Sponge - Crambe crambe, 2021
Roter Krustenschwamm, Crambe crambe

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