Observed Characteristics:
Color:
- orange
Morphology:
- encrusting
Consistency:
- hard
Locations:
- Bahamas
Species Description and Notes
Notes: Orange, hard, encrusting plate, with regularly scattered oscules. It is a sclerosponge, which means it has a basal skeleton of calcium carbonate (still to be confirmed) in which the sponge tissue is embedded. Spicules are strongyles to strongyloxeas in a loose reticulation. Ground and polished hystological sections of tissue with skeleton are needed for further confirmation.
Author Reference: Hartman, 1979
Link: World Porifera Database
Tissue and Spicule Images
Images
actinostromarioides
- Location: San Salvador, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Hogsty Reef, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Hogsty Reef, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea