| Demospongiae |
Dictyoceratida |
Irciniidae |
Ircinia campana |
7 |
Inverted cones with relatively thin walls. Sometimes as thicker vases or as fans (incomplete tubes), or as masses with an upper depression. External surface with low conules. Internal survace with aligned or scattered circular oscules. Color tan to light brown to dark brown. Consistency very tough, difficult to cut. Strong odor of sulfur and garlic. No spicules. Skeleton of ascending and diverging primary fascicles of fibers interconnected perpendicularly by secondary fibers. All fibers with embedded. Spongin fibrils characteristic of the genus are present throughout the tissue. Species absent in the Bahamas. |
(Lamarck, 1816) |
cinnamon-tan,gray,cream,vase,fan,tough |
| Demospongiae |
Dictyoceratida |
Irciniidae |
Ircinia felix-brown, dark oscules, massive morphotype |
9 |
Massive in shape. Oscules usually spread over the surface, sometimes in groups. Surface conulose .Its color can be dark brown to light brown to grayish, with characteristic darker oscular rims; cryptic specimens can be decolored. Whether the various morphotypes of what is called Ircinia felix are different species remains to be determined. This form may be what Rützler (1988) calls I. felix forma felix in Bermuda. |
(Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) |
white,gray,brown,cream,cinnamon-tan,encrusting,fan,massive,tough |
| Demospongiae |
Dictyoceratida |
Irciniidae |
Ircinia felix-whitish, dark oscules, sprawling morphotype |
18 |
Thinly encrusting, sprawling to erect, with oscular mounds, ridges or branches. Surface with low conules; oscules usually on top of conical elevations or aligned on ridges. Creamy to grayish color and oscules with a dark rim. Whether the various morphotypes of what is called Ircinia felix are different species remains to be determined. This form may contain in part be what Rützler (1988) calls I. felix forma fistularis (Verrill, 1907) from Bermuda. |
(Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) |
white,gray,brown,cream,cinnamon-tan,branching,encrusting,tube,fan,massive,lobate,tough |
| Demospongiae |
Dictyoceratida |
Irciniidae |
Ircinia sp.-black and smooth morphotype |
4 |
Massive to lobate, jet black, often smooth, with scattered oscules. Surface may be conulose on the sides. Presence of spongin fibrils and sulfur/garlic smell confirmed it to be an Ircinia; fibers are not as cored by foreign material as the other species of Ircinia. Found growing near I. strobilina black and they are easily distinguished. Smaller I. strobilina appear to have large conules like the adults. It may be confused with Hyrtios cavernosus. |
|
black,massive,tough |
| Demospongiae |
Dictyoceratida |
Irciniidae |
Ircinia sp.-creamy/dirty morphotype |
18 |
Thckly encrusting to massive, sometimes irregular. It usually has large conules, sometimes interconnected by ridges. The color is dirty yellow to cream. Oscules are dark, scattered or in groups. This group may comprise specimens of various Ircinia species, whose surface embedds a lot of sediment and thus appears dirty. |
|
brown,cream,cinnamon-tan,gray,massive,tough |
| Demospongiae |
Dictyoceratida |
Irciniidae |
Ircinia sp.-tigrina morphotype |
11 |
Globular sponges with large and packed conules. Color usually creamy or grayish, or light brown. Oscules are usually grouped on top, on a depression, but can conform scattered groups. There are often groups of pores on the sides of the sponge, but this may not unique to this species. It is what Vacelet (1990) calls Ircinia sp. from St. Barthelemy, dubbed by him Ircinia "tigrina" (pers. comm.). It may also conform to what Rutzler (1988) calls I. felix forma acuta (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864), although van Soest (1978) had considered it to be I. strobilina. |
(Lamarck, 1816) |
white,brown,cream,cinnamon-tan,black,spherical,massive,lobate,tough |
| Demospongiae |
Dictyoceratida |
Irciniidae |
Ircinia strobilina |
28 |
Massive, globular, large. Jet black (shiny) or grayish (opaque) black. Large conules often connected by ridges. Oscules often grouped on the top, located in a large depression in larger individuals. There are two individuals included tentatively here (24, no photo; 134, photo), pending further work. |
(Lamarck, 1816) |
gray,black,massive,fan,spherical,lobate,tough |
