UNCW National Science Foundation Valdosta State University Universidad Nacional de Colombia The Sponge Guide

 

Notes: Bright orange yellow crumbly masses filling crevices or growing below laminar corals; oscules and skin tend to be transparent. Bahamas specimens have as megasclere spicules strongyles instead of styles-subtylostyles of other areas (data from Loh et al., 2010).
 
Author Reference: (Carter, 1882)
 
Link: World Porifera Database
 
Color:
orange
orange-yellow
yellow
Morphology:
encrusting
Consistency:
crumbly
tough
Locations:
Bahamas - San Salvador
Bahamas - Sweetings Cay
Leeward Islands - Saint Lucia

  

 

 

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