• Location: Stirrups Cays, N Berry Islands, Bahamas

  • Habitat: rocky shore/shallow reef

  • Photographer: Sven Zea

  • Picture Taken On: 2008-06-03 15:25:02

  • Picture Notes: no image notes

  • Color: green

  • Morphology: encrusting

  • Consistency: hard

 

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/Spicule Images/: a) Oxeas to strongyloxeas; b) ends of spicules. Sample from the Bahamas.

/Tissue Images/: a) Perpendicular section at the surface; b) tangential view of the ectosome, c) enlargement at the surface; d) enlargement of the subsurface. Sample from the Bahamas.