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

  • Location: Islas del Rosario, Colombia

  • Habitat: rocky shore/shallow reef

  • Photographer: Sven Zea

  • Picture Taken On: 2008-04-06 00:00:00

  • Picture Notes: no image notes

  • Color: orange, red

  • Morphology: branching

  • Consistency: tough

 

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/Spicule Images/: Drawings of spicules (styles I and II) and of skeleton of specimens from Colombia. a) from Old Providence; b) from Islas del Rosario; c) longitudinal section of a branch, with the surface on left (from Zea, 1987, figure 67, as Ptilocaulis walpersi).