ORDER
Phascolosomatiformes
FAMILY
Phascolosomatidae
TAXONOMY
Antillesoma antillarum (Grübe and Oersted, 1858), West Indies.
OTHER COMMON NAMES
None known.
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS
Up to 7.25 in (80 mm) long. Introvert 65–75% of trunk length. Body covered with large, dark papillae; numerous tentacles with purple or green pigment patches or stripes. Introvert hooks absent in adults.
DISTRIBUTION
Cosmopolitan in intertidal and shallow tropical and subtropical waters. (Specific distribution map not available.)
HABITAT
Lives in crevices or burrows into dead coral or soft rock.
BEHAVIOR
Nothing is known.
FEEDING ECOLOGY AND DIET
Nothing is known.
REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY
Dioecious; indirect developer with lecithotrophic trochophora and long-lived planktotrophic pelagosphera.
CONSERVATION STATUS
Not listed by the IUCN.
SIGNIFICANCE TO HUMANS
None known.
