UNCW National Science Foundation Valdosta State University Universidad Nacional de Colombia The Sponge Guide

  • Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas

  • Habitat: deep reef

  • Photographer: Sven Zea

  • Picture Taken On: 2008-05-29 20:21:24

  • Picture Notes: no image notes

  • Color: orange-yellow

  • Morphology: encrusting, tube

  • Consistency: crumbly

 

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/Spicule Images/: a) Styles; b) enlargement of styles and oxeas (scarce), c) acanthostyles; d) enlargement of acanthostyles. Sample from the Bahamas.

/Tissue Images/: a) Perpendicular section of the body (surface above); b) view at the surface; c) view of the choanosome. Sample from the Bahamas.