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: 1980-04-11 00:00:00

  • Picture Notes: no image notes

  • Color: green

  • Morphology: encrusting

  • Consistency: soft

 

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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; c) tangential view of the ectosome; d) longitudinal cross-section of a branchelet (material from Islas del Rosario); e) fibers cored by spicules and debris (material from Old Providence) (From Zea, 1987, figure 66, as Ulosa funicularis).