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Location: Little San Salvador, Bahamas
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Habitat: deep reef
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Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
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Picture Taken On: 2003-07-15 11:47:54
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Picture Notes: no image notes
Color: orange
Morphology: encrusting
Consistency: tough
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| /Spicule Images/: a) Tylostyle megascleres; b) ends of tylostyles; c) microscleres: spherasters and diplaster-like developmental stages; d) enlargement of spherasters showing branchelets at the tips (arrow); e) micraster (micramphiaster) microscleres. (SEM photos courtesy of Inga Conti-Jerpe, UNCW). Sample from the Bahamas. |