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: 1979-05-01 00:00:00
  • Picture Notes: Paratype ICN-MHN(Po) 003
  • Color: brown
  • Morphology: tube
  • Consistency: hard

Spicule images: Drawings of spicules of type material (Colombia). a) Oxeas to strongyloxeas and styloids; b) ends of spicules (from Zea & Rützler, 1983, fig. 7, as Xestospongia rosariensis).

Tissue images: Drawings of the skeleton of type material (Colombia). a), b) Tangential view of the ectosome; c), d) views of the choanosome; e) longitudinal section through the axis of a tube (from Zea & Rützler, 1983, figs. 4-6, as Xestospongia rosariensis).