- Notes: Thinly encrusting, dark orange, as a hard crust with hispid surface, owing respectively to its Lithisthid skeleton of basal desmas (articulated reticulation of silicon spicules) and erect protruding spicules (styles). Looks geen when deep underwater.
- Author Reference: (Topsent, 1899)
- Link: World Porifera Database
Color: |
green |
orange |
Morphology: |
encrusting |
Consistency: |
hard |
Locations: |
Bahamas - San Salvador |
Images of Desmanthus incrustans :