Sponge Guide

UNCW National Science Foundation Valdosta State University Universidad Nacional de Colombia
  • Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas
  • Habitat: rocky shore/shallow reef
  • Photographer: Sven Zea
  • Picture Taken On: 2002-06-06 00:00:00
  • Picture Notes: no image notes
  • Color: red
  • 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. Sample from the Bahamas.