Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas

Habitat: deep reef

Photographer: Sven Zea

Picture Taken On: 2004-06-14 15:31:29

Picture Notes: At first sight it did not appear to be an Ircinia, but it smelled like one and contained spongin fibrils. It may be a juvenile. It was placed in I. strobilina for having a skeleton of thin strongly interwoven spongin fibers forming wide ascending and interconnecting fascicles, widely separated. Dermis has foreign material but nos as much as in a typical I. strobilina.

Color: black

Morphology: massive

Consistency: tough