Sponge Guide

UNCW National Science Foundation Valdosta State University Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Species: Neopetrosia proxima
  • Location: Stirrups Cays, N Berry Islands, Bahamas
  • Habitat: deep reef
  • Photographer: Sven Zea
  • Picture Taken On: 2004-06-19 10:51:27
  • Picture Notes: no image notes
  • Color: brown
  • Morphology: encrusting
  • Consistency: hard

Spicule Images: Drawing of spicules and of skeleton of material from Colombia. a) spicules (oxea); b) tangential view of the ectosome; c) perpendicular section at the surface (from Zea, 1987, figure 34, as Xestospongia proxima).