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

  • Location: Bocas del Toro, Panama

  • Habitat: rocky shore/shallow reef

  • Photographer: Sven Zea

  • Picture Taken On: 2012-08-15 00:00:00

  • Picture Notes: no image notes

  • Color: brown, cinnamon-tan

  • Morphology: encrusting, massive

  • Consistency: crumbly

 

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/Spicule Images/: a) Oxeas; b) ends of spicules. Sample from Bocas del Toro, Panama.

/Tissue Images/: a) Perpendicular section (surface above); b) enlargement at the surface; c) view of the choanosome; d) tangential view of the ectosome. Sample from Bocas del Toro, Panama.