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Sample Locations:
Biemna caribea
Species: Biemna caribea | View Image Details |
Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas | Photographer: Sven Zea |
Species: Biemna caribea | View Image Details |
Location: Islas de San Bernardo, Colombia | Photographer: Sven Zea |
Species: Biemna caribea | View Image Details |
Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas | Photographer: Susanna López-Legentil |
Notes: Also known from the Caribbean as Biemna tubulata Dendy, 1905 (but is an Indian Ocean name). Yellow encrustations or oscular masses or sprawling tubules and branches. It grows on mangrove stilt roots or erect substrata on lagoonal environments.
Author Reference: Pulitzer-Finali, 1986
Link: World Porifera Database