Sponge Guide

UNCW National Science Foundation Valdosta State University Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Species: Myrmekioderma rea
  • Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas
  • Habitat: deep reef
  • Photographer: Sven Zea
  • Picture Taken On: 2004-06-15 08:30:15
  • Picture Notes: no image notes
  • Color: orange-yellow
  • Morphology: encrusting
  • Consistency: soft

Spicule Images: a) Styles (SEM); b) acanthoxea (SEM and light); c) three sizes of raphides in bundles (trichodragmata). Sample from Bocas del Todo. SEM photos by Magdalena Lukwiak; light photos by Cristina Díaz.

Tissue Images: a) Perpendicular section of the body; b) magnification of the left-hand side of a). Sample from the Bahamas.