Valonia utricularis Sea Tube

Valonia utricularis is commonly referred to as Sea Tube. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for aquarium keeping. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

Profile

lexID:

18033 

AphiaID:

145884 

Scientific:

Valonia utricularis 

German:

Blasenschlauch 

English:

Sea Tube 

Category:

 

Family tree:

Plantae (Kingdom) > Chlorophyta (Phylum) > Ulvophyceae (Class) > Cladophorales (Order) > Valoniaceae (Family) > Valonia (Genus) > utricularis (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Roth) C.Agardh, 1823 

Occurrence:

Tunesien, (the) Maldives, Adriatic Sea (Mediterranean), Algeria, Australia, Azores, Bermuda, Brazil, China, Circumtropic, Corsica, Cuba, Cyprus, Egypt, European Coasts, Fiji, Florida, France, Greece, Gulf of Mexico, India, Indian Ocean, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Lebanon, Madagascar, Madeira, Malaysia, Malta, Martinique, Mauritania, Micronesia, Morocco, Myanmar, New Caledonia, New Zealand, North Atlantic Ocean, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Polynesia, Portugal, Queensland (Australia), Réunion , Spain, Sri Lanka, Syrian Arab Republic, Tansania, Thailand, The Bahamas, the Canary Islands, the Cape Verde Archipelago, the Caribbean, the Mediterranean Sea, the Seychelles, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Vietnam, West-Atlantic 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:

1 - 35 Meter 

Habitats:

Coral rubble substrate, Seagrass meadows, Eelgrass Meadows, Seawater, Sea water 

Size:

0.79" - 1.97" (2cm - 5cm) 

Temperature:

55.4 °F - 84.2 °F (13°C - 29°C) 

Food:

Photosynthesis 

Difficulty:

Not suitable for aquarium keeping 

Offspring:

None 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Not evaluated (NE) 

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• Valonia complicata
• Valonia planiscutellata

 

More related species
in this lexicon:

• 
  Valonia aegagropila
  Nest-Alge
• 
  Valonia macrophysa
  Große Blasenalge, Große Kugelalge, Seestraube
• 
  Valonia utricularis
  Blasenschlauch
• 
  Valonia ventricosa
  Kugelalge, Blasenalge, Seeman-Auge

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2026-01-08 19:28:50 

Last edit:

2026-01-08 19:47:24 

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