• Location: Santa Marta, Colombia

  • Habitat: deep reef

  • Photographer: Sven Zea

  • Picture Taken On: 2008-12-09 00:00:00

  • Picture Notes: no image notes

  • Color: red

  • Morphology: encrusting

  • Consistency: crumbly, tough

 

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/Spicule Images/: Drawings of spicules and of skeleton of specimens from Colombia. a) styles; b) tangential view of the ectosome; c) section perpendicular to the surface; d) longitudinal section of a branch showing the ascending and radially diverging skeletal frameword (from Zea, 1987, figure 70, as Pseudaxinella lunaechaarta).