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

 

Notes: Inverted cones with relatively thin walls, greenish to purplish in the outside, bright yellow inside, turn purple in air. Skeleton is a pithed spongin fiber network forming the walls of a honeycomb, which show on the surface. A sister species is V. reiswigi Alcolado, 1984 (also pictured in this catalogue), whose shape is that of a thick-walled barrel or amphora.
 
Author Reference: (Hyatt, 1875)
 
Link: World Porifera Database
 
Color:
brown
cinnamon-tan
green
orange
pink-lilac
yellow
Morphology:
fan
vase
Consistency:
soft
tough
Locations:
Bahamas - Great Abaco
Bahamas - Great Inagua
Bahamas - Hogsty Reef
Bahamas - Little Inagua
Bahamas - Long Island
Bahamas - San Salvador
Bahamas - Sweetings Cay

  

 

 

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