Sponge Guide

UNCW National Science Foundation Valdosta State University Universidad Nacional de Colombia
  • Location: Little San Salvador, Bahamas
  • Habitat: deep reef
  • Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
  • Picture Taken On: 2003-07-15 11:47:54
  • Picture Notes: no image notes
  • Color: orange
  • Morphology: encrusting
  • Consistency: tough

Spicule Images: a) Tylostyle megascleres; b) ends of tylostyles; c) microscleres: spherasters and diplaster-like developmental stages; d) enlargement of spherasters showing branchelets at the tips (arrow); e) micraster (microamphiaster) microscleres. (SEM photos courtesy of Inga Conti-Jerpe, UNCW). Sample from the Bahamas.