Sponge Guide

UNCW National Science Foundation Valdosta State University Universidad Nacional de Colombia
  • Location: Colombia-Santa Marta
  • Habitat: rocky shore/shallow reef
  • Photographer: Sven Zea
  • Picture Taken On: 1999-04-18
  • Picture Notes: Specimen ICN-MHN(Po)269 (PSM389), HOLOTYPE
  • Color: brown
  • Morphology: encrusting
  • Consistency: crumbly

Spicules image: a) Oxeas. Sample from Santa Marta, Colombia [specimen ICN-MHN(Po) 269, Holotype]. Photos and image composition by Jaime Andrés Ríos (U. Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá campus).

Tissue image: a) Perpendicular section (surface above); b) tangential view of the ectosome; c) enlargement at the surface; d) view of the choanosome. Sample from Santa Marta, Colombia [specimen ICN-MHN(Po) 269, Holotype].