| Demospongiae |
Verongida |
Aplysinidae |
Verongula gigantea |
11 |
Inverted cones with relatively thin walls, greenish to purplish in the outside, bright yellow inside, turn purple in air. Skeleton is a pithed spongin fiber network forming the walls of a honeycomb, which show on the surface. A sister species is V. reiswigi Alcolado, 1984 (also pictured in this catalogue), whose shape is that of a thick-walled barrel or amphora. |
(Hyatt, 1875) |
yellow,brown,cinnamon-tan,green,pink-lilac,orange,vase,fan,tough,soft |
| Demospongiae |
Verongida |
Aplysinidae |
Verongula reiswigi |
14 |
Thick-walled barrels-jugs, single or in groups. Greenish to purplish in the outside, bright yellow inside, turn purple in air. Skeleton is a pithed spongin fiber network forming the walls of a honeycomb, which show on the surface. A sister species is V. gigantea (Hyatt, 1875) (also pictured in this catalogue), whose shape is that of a thin-walled inverted cone. |
Alcolado, 1984 |
yellow,green,brown,purple-violet,cinnamon-tan,tube,vase,lobate,tough,soft |
| Demospongiae |
Verongida |
Aplysinidae |
Verongula rigida |
8 |
Groups of low oscular mounds-tubes, placed side by side and irregularly arranged,orften forming repent branches. In wave-exposed sites the species looks as repent thick branches with oscules aligned on top. Color light to dark green in the outside, lemon yellow in the inside, turns purple in air. Skeleton is a pithed spongin fiber network forming the walls of a honeycomb, which show on the surface. |
(Esper, 1794) |
yellow,green,branching,encrusting,tube,massive,soft |
