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: 1979-05-01 00:00:00

  • Picture Notes: no image notes

  • Color: orange-yellow

  • Morphology: tube

  • Consistency: crumbly

 

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/Spicule Images/: Drawings of spicules and of skeleton of material from Colombia. a) Spicules from Old Providence; b) spicules from Islas del Rosario; in both cases styles and acanthostyles; c) section perpendicular to the surface (from Zea, 1987, figure 73).