Observed Characteristics:
Color:
- red
- pink-lilac
Morphology:
- encrusting
- lobate
- massive
- tube
Consistency:
- soft
- tough
Locations:
- Bahamas
- United States
Species Description and Notes
Notes: Originally placed under genus Euryades. Also known as Darwinella joyeuxi Topsent, 1889. Bright pink cushions or clumped branches-lobes with upper oscules. The color looks solid throughout the tissue. It has characteristic diactine and triactine spongin filaments that look like soft spicules.
Author Reference: (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
Link: World Porifera Database
Tissue and Spicule Images
Images
notabilis
- Location: Stirrups Cays, N Berry Islands, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Stirrups Cays, N Berry Islands, Bahamas
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: Stirrups Cays, N Berry Islands, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Stirrups Cays, N Berry Islands, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Florida Keys, United States
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: Florida Keys, United States
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: Florida Keys, United States
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik