- Notes: Orange, football shaped to crevice filling with lobate outgrowths; round oscules with a collar. Areas with fields of pores. Previous authors called it an orange morphotype of Agelas dispar (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864). It can be confused with small Agelas clathrodes (Schmidt, 1870). A. sventres usually has softer, cavernous lobes crown with holes or oscules. Spicules are acanthostyles.
- Author Reference: Lehnert & van Soest, 1996
- Link: World Porifera Database
| Color: |
| orange |
| Morphology: |
| encrusting |
| lobate |
| massive |
| spherical |
| Consistency: |
| tough |
| Locations: |
| Bahamas - Egg Island |
| Bahamas - Little San Salvador |
| Bahamas - NW Passage |
| Bahamas - Plana Cays |
| Bahamas - Stirrups Cays, N Berry Islands |
| Bahamas - Sweetings Cay |
| Netherland Antilles - Curaçao |
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