| Demospongiae |
Halichondrida |
Heteroxyidae |
Higginsia coralloides |
2 |
Previously known as Higginsia strigilata (Lamarck, 1814), a name originally from Australia. Scarlet red to orange, erect cylinder or bushes, with the surface formed by many evenly-spaced spiny, roundish processes from which spicules protrude. Spicules are very long styles, shorter oxea, and smaller acanthomicroxea. Can be confused with Ptilocaulis walpersi (styles only) and P. marquezi (oxea, no microxea). |
Higgin, 1877 |
orange,bushy,tough |
