Observed Characteristics:
Color:
- gray
- black
Morphology:
- fan
- lobate
- massive
- spherical
Consistency:
- tough
Locations:
- Bahamas
- Martinique
- Netherland Antilles
Species Description and Notes
Notes: Massive, globular, large. Jet black (shiny) or grayish (opaque) black. Large conules often connected by ridges. Oscules often grouped on the top, located in a large depression in larger individuals. There are two individuals included tentatively here (24, no photo; 134, photo), pending further work.
Author Reference: (Lamarck, 1816)
Link: World Porifera Database
Tissue and Spicule Images
Images
strobilina
- Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Little San Salvador, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Little San Salvador, Bahamas
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: Little San Salvador, Bahamas
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Northern Exuma Cays, Bahamas
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: Bimini, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Bonaire, Netherland Antilles
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: Curaçao, Netherland Antilles
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: Martinique
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: Plana Cays, Bahamas
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik