Observed Characteristics:
Color:
- red
- yellow
- cinnamon-tan
Morphology:
- lobate
- spherical
- tube
- vase
Consistency:
- hard
- tough
Locations:
- Bahamas
Species Description and Notes
Notes: Creamy yellow to brownish vases or tubes, riddled with roundish holes; usually hard. Not to be confused with Suberea sp.-“soft Aplysina lacunosa“, which has mistakenly been included within this species in the past.
Author Reference: (Lamarck, 1814)
Link: World Porifera Database
Tissue and Spicule Images
Images
lacunosa
- Location: Little San Salvador, Bahamas
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: Great Abaco, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: San Salvador, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: San Salvador, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Plana Cays, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea