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Dercitus (Halinastra) luteus
Species: Dercitus (Halinastra) luteus | View Image Details |
Location: San Salvador, Bahamas | Photographer: Micha Ilan |
Species: Dercitus (Halinastra) luteus | View Image Details |
Location: Santa Marta, Colombia | Photographer: Sven Zea |
Species: Dercitus (Halinastra) luteus | View Image Details |
Location: Santa Marta, Colombia | Photographer: Sven Zea |
Species: Dercitus (Halinastra) luteus | View Image Details |
Location: Santa Marta, Colombia | Photographer: Sven Zea |
Notes: Bright lemon yellow encrustations or cavity-filling masses living in crevices and under corals, with the tissue peculiarly stretched from wall to floor or wall to wall. It turns dark purple-brown when exposed to air. Originally placed under genus Pachataxa (P. lutea) of family Calthropellidae (see van Soest et al., 2010). Material from the Bahamas only has a few of the calthrop megasclere spicules characteristic of the species, and quite deformed and of much smaller size than those from the type locality (Jamaica) and from Colombia.
Author Reference: (Pulitzer-Finali, 1986)
Link: World Porifera Database