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

 

Notes: Pinkish/orange, thick jugs-tubes; surface with round oscules surrounded by convoluted deep crevices which are rather homogenously distributed throughout the body. Spicules are acanthostyles. May be confused with some Agelas tubulata Lehnert & van Soest, 1996 having some deep crevices or lumps unevenly distributed in parts of the body (some specimens were hard to assign to either A. cerebrum o A. tubulata), but usually those do not have the oscules or fields of pores among recesses.
 
Author Reference: Assman, van Soest & Köck, 2001
 
Link: World Porifera Database
 
Color:
cinnamon-tan
orange
pink-lilac
Morphology:
tube
vase
Consistency:
tough
Locations:
Bahamas - Little San Salvador
Bahamas - Northern Exuma Cays
Bahamas - NW Passage
Bahamas - Santo Domingo Cay
Bahamas - Sweetings Cay

  

 

 

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