- Notes: Slightly tough to softer, creamy-orangy encrustations growing on deep reef overhangs, with characteristic brain-like convolutions and scattered oscules on skin lobes. Spicules are diods and triods with a few spines, calthrops and small branched lophocalthrops (lophotriaenes). Softer specimens have less spicules than tougher ones, often just a few. Should be compared to Plakina versatilis (Schmidt, 1880) (originally described under Corcitium, see Rützler et l., 2009).
- Author Reference: Lehnert & van Soest, 1998
- Link: World Porifera Database
| Color: |
| cinnamon-tan |
| cream |
| orange |
| Morphology: |
| encrusting |
| massive |
| Consistency: |
| soft |
| tough |
| Locations: |
| Bahamas - Hogsty Reef |
| Bahamas - Little San Salvador |
| Bahamas - Northern Exuma Cays |
| Bahamas - Plana Cays |
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