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Chalinula molitba
Species: Chalinula molitba | View Image Details |
Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas | Photographer: Sven Zea |
Species: Chalinula molitba | View Image Details |
Location: Little San Salvador, Bahamas | Photographer: Joseph Pawlik |
Species: Chalinula molitba | View Image Details |
Location: Little San Salvador, Bahamas | Photographer: Joseph Pawlik |
Species: Chalinula molitba | View Image Details |
Location: Little San Salvador, Bahamas | Photographer: Tadeusz Molinski |
Species: Chalinula molitba | View Image Details |
Location: Little San Salvador, Bahamas | Photographer: Tadeusz Molinski |
Species: Chalinula molitba | View Image Details |
Location: Florida Keys, United States | Photographer: Joseph Pawlik |
Notes: Light purple to pink to bluish branches or tangled tubes. De Weerdt (2000) included within this species a spongin-dominated morphotype and a spicule-dominating one. Here we include only specimens with spongin-dominated skeletons and use Chalinula pseudomolitba (de Weerdt, Rützler & Smith, 1991) for the spicule-dominated ones. It differs from Ch. pseudomolitba in having a loose network of spongin fibers (ascending and interconnecting) with a few embedded thin spicules.
Author Reference: (de Laubenfels, 1949)
Link: World Porifera Database