- Notes: Pinkish to orange thick encrustations with volcano-shaped oscules. Consistency firmy compressible, crumbly. Spicules are perfect strongyles 325-400 x 10-20 µm arranged in the ectosome as a tangential unispicular reticulation, and in the choanosome as multispicular reticulation.
- Author Reference: Lehnert & van Soest, 1999
- Link: World Porifera Database
| Color: |
| orange |
| pink-lilac |
| Morphology: |
| massive |
| tube |
| Consistency: |
| tough |
| Locations: |
| Bahamas - Plana Cays |
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