| Demospongiae |
Haplosclerida |
Callyspongiidae |
Callyspongia ?eschrichti |
10 |
Lobate with scattered oscules, conules and contorted skin fibers. Light gray. It remains to be determined if this is C. eschriti or one of the Callyspongia o Tuba species described originally by Duchassaing and Michellotti and now synonymized under C. vaginalis (Lamarck, 1814). It is certainly different to C. vaginalis, with which it coexists; but it does not exactly match the thorny appearance of C. eschriti depicted in the literature. Pedro Alcolado (Cuba) names this sponge Callyspongia vaginalis forma solida. |
Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 |
blue,gray,pink-lilac,tube,massive,bushy,lobate,branching,tough,soft |
| Demospongiae |
Haplosclerida |
Callyspongiidae |
Callyspongia armigera |
8 |
Gray, erect to repent branches, conulose, oscules aligned. |
(Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) |
gray,branching,tough |
| Demospongiae |
Haplosclerida |
Callyspongiidae |
Callyspongia fallax |
10 |
Bluish or pinkish tubes, usually low, in groups; may be massive or thickly encrusting with oscular mounds; stiffly spongy; tissue clears away easily, leaving the clean skeleton. |
Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 |
blue,pink-lilac,gray,cream,branching,tube,tough |
| Demospongiae |
Haplosclerida |
Callyspongiidae |
Callyspongia longissima |
2 |
Long, single vases-tubes, gray. Considered as a valid, separate species from C. vaginalis (Lamarck, 1814), but further analyses may be needed to confirm it. |
(Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) |
gray,orange,tube,vase,tough |
| Demospongiae |
Haplosclerida |
Callyspongiidae |
Callyspongia pallida |
2 |
In The Bahamas it grows as light purple or greenish-grayish thin branches or aligned tubes; easily compressible. Lagoonal specimens may be similar to C. fallax Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864, but C. pallida is much softer and its fiber networks of much smaller size. In other areas C. pallida is more massive with oscular or tubular mounds, and tends to be whitish. Pedro Alcolado (Cuba) call this form Callyspongia arcesiosa de Laubenfels, 1936, as a distinct species from C. pallida. We haave so far found only one form of soft Callyspongia and used C. pallida following van Soest (1980). |
Hechtel, 1965 |
blue,pink-lilac,branching,tube,soft |
| Demospongiae |
Haplosclerida |
Callyspongiidae |
Callyspongia plicifera |
14 |
Iridiscent blue vases; when not iridiscent, creamy orange. Surface characteristically convoluted. |
(Lamarck, 1814) |
blue,pink-lilac,cream,gray,vase,tube,fan,tough |
| Demospongiae |
Haplosclerida |
Callyspongiidae |
Callyspongia strongylophora |
1 |
A tangled mass of thin, brown, elastic branches. Not to be confused with Haliclona ?ruetzleri de Weerdt, 2002, which has thinner branches, is softer, and has an unispicular reticulation of oxea spicules (compared to a reticulation of spongin fibers with cored spicules typical of Callyspongia in C. strongylophora. |
Hartman, 1955 |
brown,branching,soft |
| Demospongiae |
Haplosclerida |
Callyspongiidae |
Callyspongia tenerrima |
13 |
Erect, gray branches. Oscula spread throughout the branches, flush with the surface. Surface generally even; a network of fibers is visible. |
Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 |
gray,pink-lilac,blue,branching,tough,soft |
| Demospongiae |
Haplosclerida |
Callyspongiidae |
Callyspongia vaginalis |
21 |
Groups of cylindrical tubes, sometimes wider at the top, forming vases, grayish, pinkish, yellowish, with smooth conules. In the Florida Keys there are three co-existing morphotypes, gray, red, and yellow, which are not genetically distinct and appear to be the result of ecophenotypic plasticity due to some degree of ecological differentiation (see López-Legentil et al., 2010). |
(Lamarck, 1814) |
gray,yellow,green,pink-lilac,orange,cream,cinnamon-tan,tube,vase,spherical,fan,tough |
