Sponge Guide

UNCW National Science Foundation Valdosta State University Universidad Nacional de Colombia
  • Location: Santa Marta, Colombia
  • Habitat: deep reef
  • Photographer: Sven Zea
  • Picture Taken On: 2008-12-09 00:00:00
  • Picture Notes: no image notes
  • Color: red
  • Morphology: encrusting
  • Consistency: crumbly, tough

Spicule Images: Drawings of spicules and of skeleton of specimens from Colombia. a) styles; b) tangential view of the ectosome; c) section perpendicular to the surface; d) longitudinal section of a branch showing the ascending and radially diverging skeletal frameword (from Zea, 1987, figure 70, as Pseudaxinella lunaechaarta).