- Notes: Pink to yellowish, rounded masses, reminiscent of baby butts. Stony hard owing to its calcareous basal skeleton, which makes it a sclerosponge. Spicules are acanthostyles, curved, 120-310 µm. Found in mid depth (15 m) and deeper reef crevices.
- Author Reference: (Hickson, 1911)
- Link: World Porifera Database
| Color: |
| cinnamon-tan |
| cream |
| orange |
| yellow |
| Morphology: |
| encrusting |
| massive |
| Consistency: |
| hard |
| Locations: |
| Bahamas - Little Inagua |
| Bahamas - Northern Exuma Cays |
| Bahamas - San Salvador |
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