- Notes: Lobes, ridges or branches arising from an encrusting base. Yellowish to golden brown exterior, purple in the subsurface and creamy inside. Consistency compressible, spongy, but somewhat hard to cut or tear. Skeleton as a plumose paucispicular reticulation of slightly asymetric (oxeote) strongyles 150-230 x 2.5-7.5 µm. Svenzea flava Lehnert & van Soest, 1999 and Svenzea tubulosa (Alcolado & Gotera, 1986) are similar in coloration and spiculation but the spicules are larger and thicker than the present species. This species also seem to lack the strongly pigmented cells described for genus Svenzea. It should be compared to Neopetrosia dominicana (Pulitzler-Finali, 1986, as Xestospongia), which is described from a brown, slightly resilient, subcylindrical fragment, as having strongyles, slightly curved, 140-260 x 5-14 µm.
| Color: |
| cinnamon-tan |
| yellow |
| Morphology: |
| branching |
| fan |
| lobate |
| massive |
| Consistency: |
| crumbly |
| tough |
| Locations: |
| Bahamas - Great Inagua |
| Bahamas - Little Inagua |
| Bahamas - Little San Salvador |
| Bahamas - Plana Cays |
Images of Svenzea sp. lobes, fans or branches :