- Location:
Sweetings Cay, Bahamas
- Habitat:
deep reef
- Photographer:
Sven Zea
- Picture Taken On:
2004-06-14 15:31:29
- Picture Notes:
At first sight it did not appear to be an Ircinia, but it smelled like one and contained spongin fibrils. It may be a juvenile. It was placed in I. strobilina for having a skeleton of thin strongly interwoven spongin fibers forming wide ascending and interconnecting fascicles, widely separated. Dermis has foreign material but nos as much as in a typical I. strobilina.
- Color:
black
- Morphology:
massive
- Consistency:
tough