- Notes: Thinly encrusting, soft, bright vermillion red with oscules and exhalant canals visible forming a star pattern. Skeleton as closely spaced brushes or erect tylostyles 240-520 by 5-11µm, traversing a cortex of diplaster-like spherasters microscleres. Also present are microamphiasters. The closest Timea species described for the Caribbean is Timea micraster. Our identification is tentative pending further comparisons.
- Author Reference: (Lehnert & Heimler, 2001)
| Color: |
| orange |
| red |
| Morphology: |
| encrusting |
| Consistency: |
| soft |
| Locations: |
| Bahamas - Hogsty Reef |
Images of Timea ?micraster :