Observed Characteristics:
Color:
- gray
- green
- black
- brown
Morphology:
- lobate
- massive
- tube
- vase
Consistency:
- tough
Locations:
- Bahamas
- United States
Species Description and Notes
Notes: Massive, with oscular mounds or volcanoes, dark green to brown black or gray. It becomes dark and exudes abundant mucus when handled. Distinguished from S. aurea (Hyatt, 1875), also pictured here, by having blunt ends of primary fibers protruding on the surface, while the surface of S. aurea forms a honeycomb pattern of ridges. These primary fibers are also wider apart than in S. aurea. S. aurea fibers are also wider, especially the secondary reticulum, with many characteristic rectangular meshes (longer axis perpendicular to de surface).
Author Reference: Pulitzer-Finali, 1986
Link: World Porifera Database
Tissue and Spicule Images
Images
conulosa
- Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Little San Salvador, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Little San Salvador, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Little San Salvador, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Santo Domingo Cay, Bahamas
- Photographer: Not available
- Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Sweetings Cay, 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
- Location: Florida Keys, United States
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: Hogsty Reef, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Hogsty Reef, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Hogsty Reef, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Hogsty Reef, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Hogsty Reef, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Hogsty Reef, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Hogsty Reef, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Great Inagua, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Great Inagua, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Little Inagua, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Hogsty Reef, Bahamas
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik