Sponge Guide

UNCW National Science Foundation Valdosta State University Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Species: Calyx podatypa
  • Location: Little San Salvador, Bahamas
  • Habitat: mangrove/coastal lagoon
  • Photographer: Sven Zea
  • Picture Taken On: 2004-06-26 09:19:18
  • Picture Notes: no image notes
  • Color: brown
  • Morphology: encrusting
  • Consistency: crumbly

Spicule Images: Drawings of spicules and skeleton of material from Colombia. a) spicules (oxeas); b), c) tangential view of the ectosome; d) perpendicular section (surface above); e) perpendicular section of a non-exposed portion of the body (from Zea 1987, fig. 41, as Pachypellina podatypa).