- 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 |
Images of Verongula gigantea :