Prosadenoporus agricola

Appearance

Body color varies from uniform milk-white or grayish-white to orange, rosy, and greenish-brown or grayish-brown dorsally, and pale gray of whitish ventrally.

Range and habitat

Prosadenoporus agricola are primarily found in Bermuda, in terrestrial and marine reef habitats. Terrestrial habitats occur at the drier margins of mangrove swamps and in moist earth under stones or matted algae on hillsides, in earthworm burrows. Marine habitats include Marine Intertidal and Marine Coastal/Supratidal.

Prosadenoporus agricola, also known as the Bermuda Islands mangrove ribbon worm, is a hermaphroditic viviparous ribbon worm native to Bermuda.

Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.

In crisis

The species has not recorded since 1966 and may be extinct. It has not been recorded since 1966 and may be extinct. Population decline is likely due to continuing decline in habitat caused by development.

The species is assessed as Critically Endangered/Possibly Extinct (Moore et al., 2001) The species is threatened by housing and urban areas, commercial and industrial areas, and tourism and recreation areas.

Prosadenoporus agricola is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.

Sources

Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Prosadenoporus agricola, Wikidata item Q1858782. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.