- Notes: Thick-walled barrels-jugs, single or in groups. Greenish to purplish in the outside, bright yellow inside, turn purple in air. Skeleton is a pithed spongin fiber network forming the walls of a honeycomb, which show on the surface. A sister species is V. gigantea (Hyatt, 1875) (also pictured in this catalogue), whose shape is that of a thin-walled inverted cone.
- Author Reference: Alcolado, 1984
- Link: World Porifera Database
| Color: |
| brown |
| cinnamon-tan |
| green |
| purple-violet |
| yellow |
| Morphology: |
| lobate |
| tube |
| vase |
| Consistency: |
| soft |
| tough |
| Locations: |
| Bahamas - Cat Island, SW |
| Bahamas - Great Abaco |
| Bahamas - Great Inagua |
| Bahamas - Little San Salvador |
| Bahamas - Long Island |
| Bahamas - Plana Cays |
| Bahamas - San Salvador |
| Bahamas - Sweetings Cay |
| Leeward Islands - Martinique |
Images of Verongula reiswigi :