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

  • Location: Islas de San Bernardo, Colombia

  • Habitat: mangrove/coastal lagoon

  • Photographer: Sven Zea

  • Picture Taken On: 1982-10-06 00:00:00

  • Picture Notes: no image notes

  • Color: cinnamon-tan, cream

  • Morphology: massive

  • Consistency: crumbly

 

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/Spicule Images/: a) Oxeas- I; b) oxeas-styles II, c) enlarged tips of oxeas I; d) enlargement of a style II; e) plagiotriaenes; f) anatriaene; g) enlargement of clads of anatriaenes and of a deformed mesoprotriaene (lower right); h) microscleres (sterraster; spined asters in three types, oxyasters, slender and stout, and and strongyl- or oxyasters); g) enlargement of microscleres (rossettes and hilum of sterraster on the left;). Sample from Islas de San Bernardo, Colombia.