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

 

Notes: Irregular masses to bushes, with protrusions tending to form or forming tubes with oscules terminated in transparent collars. Often growing on gorgonians. Color light gray to light purple or pink. The skeleton is reinforced by calcareous alga of the type Jania, with megasclere spicules tornotes and microsclere spicules sigmas and chelae. Also known as Strongylacidon osburnensis (George & Wilson, 1929).
 
Author Reference: (Schmidt, 1870)
 
Link: World Porifera Database
 
Color:
gray
pink-lilac
Morphology:
bushy
massive
tube
Consistency:
soft
Locations:
Bahamas - Stirrups Cays, N Berry Islands

  

 

 

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