Sponge Guide

UNCW National Science Foundation Valdosta State University Universidad Nacional de Colombia
  • Location: Islas del Rosario, Colombia
  • Habitat: rocky shore/shallow reef
  • Photographer: Sven Zea
  • Picture Taken On: 2008-04-06 00:00:00
  • Picture Notes: no image notes
  • Color: orange, red
  • Morphology: branching
  • Consistency: tough

Spicule Images: Drawings of spicules (styles I and II) and of skeleton of specimens from Colombia. a) from Old Providence; b) from Islas del Rosario; c) longitudinal section of a branch, with the surface on left (from Zea, 1987, figure 67, as Ptilocaulis walpersi).