- Notes: A group of thick vases-tubes, cinnamon-tan in external color, soft and crumbly; subsurface color purplish, interior cream. Spicules are strongyles, curved and somewhat flexuous. In The Bahamas, it has only been seen in deep reef of Plana Cays. From its shape, at some point we thought it could be Xestospongia caminata Pulitzler-Finali, 1986, but the latter has oxeas as spicules. Svenzea sp. has a skeleton of ascending and interconnecting loose spicule tracts, ladder like, embedded in spongin, somewaht similar to Svenzea flava Lehnert & van Soest, 1999, Svenzea tubulosa (Alcolado & Gotera, 1986) and Svenzea sp-lobes or branches, but with the ascending tracts less obvious and plumose; as these, it also seem to lack the strongly pigmented cells described for genus Svenzea.
| Color: |
| cinnamon-tan |
| pink-lilac |
| Morphology: |
| fan |
| lobate |
| tube |
| vase |
| Consistency: |
| crumbly |
| soft |
| tough |
| Locations: |
| Bahamas - Plana Cays |
Images of Svenzea sp.-thick tubes :