Observed Characteristics:
Color:
- blue
- gray
- pink-lilac
Morphology:
- branching
- bushy
- lobate
- massive
- tube
Consistency:
- soft
- tough
Locations:
- Bahamas
Species Description and Notes
Notes: Lobate with scattered oscules, conules and contorted skin fibers. Light gray. It remains to be determined if this is C. eschriti or one of the Callyspongia or Tuba species described originally by Duchassaing and Michellotti and now synonymized under C. vaginalis (Lamarck, 1814). It is certainly different to C. vaginalis, with which it coexists; but it does not exactly match the thorny appearance of C. eschriti depicted in the literature. Pedro Alcolado (Cuba, pers. comm.) names this sponge Callyspongia vaginalis forma solida, but it has not yet been formally described.
Author Reference: Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864
Link: World Porifera Database
Tissue and Spicule Images
Images
?eschrichti
- Location: Great Abaco, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Great Abaco, 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: Stirrups Cays, N Berry Islands, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea