- Notes: Thick, crumbly to soft encrustations, golden brown, with the interior cream. Oscules on top of lobed elevations; sometimes lobes grow upwards and ramify. Spicules are curved to sinuous styles, 420-480 µm. Most specimens from the localities where it was described (Belize, Jamaica) have also oxea spicules, but these are reported to be sometimes absent. It has the dark granular cells in the interior characteristic of the genus Svenzea (see Svenzea zeai in this guide).
- Author Reference: Alvarez, van Soest & Rützler, 2002
- Link: World Porifera Database
| Color: |
| brown |
| cinnamon-tan |
| Morphology: |
| encrusting |
| lobate |
| Consistency: |
| crumbly |
| Locations: |
| Leeward Islands - Saint Eustatius |
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