UNCW National Science Foundation Valdosta State University Universidad Nacional de Colombia The Sponge Guide

 

Notes: Browhish/pinkish/cinnamon orange, laterally fused tubes running on branches or growing on one another, and usually arising from a single base, forming antlers or clubs. Often with darker zoanthids livion on the skin. May be confused with Agelas tubulata Lehnert & van Soest, 1996, in which the tubes usually arise from the base close to the substratum. Spicules are acanthostyles.
 
Author Reference: (Schmidt, 1870)
 
Link: World Porifera Database
 
Color:
brown
cinnamon-tan
orange
Morphology:
branching
fan
lobate
tube
Consistency:
tough
Locations:
Bahamas - Great Inagua
Bahamas - Hogsty Reef
Bahamas - Little Inagua
Bahamas - Little San Salvador
Bahamas - NW Passage
Bahamas - Stirrups Cays, N Berry Islands
Bahamas - Sweetings Cay
Netherland Antilles - Bonaire
Netherland Antilles - Curaçao

  

 

 

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