Sponge Guide

UNCW National Science Foundation Valdosta State University Universidad Nacional de Colombia
  • Location: Florida Keys, United States
  • Habitat: rocky shore/shallow reef
  • Photographer: Sven Zea
  • Picture Taken On: 1994-03-19 00:00:00
  • Picture Notes: no image notes
  • Color: black
  • Morphology: encrusting
  • Consistency: crumbly, hard

Spicule Images: Drawings of spicules and of skeleton of material from Colombia. a) Spicules from Islas del Rosario (oxea and centrangulate toxiform raphides); b) from Santa Marta (only oxeas); c) and d) tangential view of the ectosome; e) perpendicular section at the surface (from Zea, 1987, figure 38, as Pellina carbonaria).