Sponge Guide

UNCW National Science Foundation Valdosta State University Universidad Nacional de Colombia
  • Location: San Salvador, Bahamas
  • Habitat: deep reef
  • Photographer: Sven Zea
  • Picture Taken On: 2004-06-25 09:12:19
  • Picture Notes: no image notes
  • Color: cinnamon-tan
  • Morphology: branching
  • Consistency: hard

Spicule Images: Drawing of spicules and skeleton of material from Colombia. a) Spicules (oxea); b) tangential view of uni and multispicular ectosome; c) perpendicular section at the surface (from Zea, 1978, figure 33, as Xestospongia subtriangularis).