- Notes: Thick, leathery incrustations with scattered, slighlty elevated oscules. Color bright vermillion in shallow specimens, dull red in deeper specimens, the latter as a result of having a withish skin patched by bright colored inhalant areas (oscular collars are also whitish). S. hartmani Boury-Esnault, Klautau, Bézac, Wulff and Solé-Cava, 1999 is distinguished from S. coccinea by having a salmon color, a softer consistency, and clearly elevanted exhalant canals that converge in raised oscula. S. coccinea has a category of stouter spiraster spicules.
- Author Reference: (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
- Link: World Porifera Database
| Color: |
| orange |
| red |
| Morphology: |
| encrusting |
| Consistency: |
| tough |
| Locations: |
| Bahamas - Great Abaco |
| Bahamas - Little San Salvador |
| Bahamas - Northern Exuma Cays |
| Bahamas - Stirrups Cays, N Berry Islands |
| Bahamas - Sweetings Cay |
| United States - Florida Keys |
| United States - Florida, Boynton Beach |
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