- Notes: Very soft, gray black, light brown or parrot green encrustations with scattered oscules; internal color lighter. Often the tissue dissintegrates upon handling. No spicules. It has the look of a typical sponge of the genus Plakortis [(especially Plakortis angulospiculatus (Carter, 1882)] except by the lack of spicules. Genus Pseudocorticium was recently erected to hold those species of the family Plakinidae without spicules (Boury-Esnault et al., 1995), but its external appearance is completely different to that of Plakortis. Further work with tools other than external morphology and size of spicules is needed. We are puzzled by the variation in color and by the fact that there are specimens of P. angulospiculatus with a few spicules, perhaps indicating that spicule contents vary ecologically.
| Color: |
| black |
| brown |
| cinnamon-tan |
| gray |
| green |
| Morphology: |
| encrusting |
| massive |
| Consistency: |
| soft |
| Locations: |
| Bahamas - Great Inagua |
| Bahamas - Little San Salvador |
| Bahamas - Plana Cays |
| Bahamas - Sweetings Cay |
Images of Plakortis sp.-no spicules :