| Demospongiae |
Hadromerida |
Timeidae |
Timea ?micraster |
1 |
Thinly encrusting, soft, bright vermillion red with oscules and exhalant canals visible forming a star pattern. Skeleton as closely spaced brushes or erect tylostyles 240-520 by 5-11µm, traversing a cortex of diplaster-like spherasters microscleres. Also present are microamphiasters. The closest Timea species described for the Caribbean is Timea micraster. Our identification is tentative pending further comparisons. |
(Lehnert & Heimler, 2001) |
red,orange,encrusting,soft |
