Observed Characteristics:
Color:
- gray
- yellow
- green
- pink-lilac
- orange
- cream
- cinnamon-tan
Morphology:
- fan
- spherical
- tube
- vase
Consistency:
- tough
Locations:
- Bahamas
- Martinique
- Netherland Antilles
- Saint Eustatius
- Saint Lucia
- United States
Species Description and Notes
Notes: Groups of cylindrical tubes, sometimes wider at the top, forming vases, grayish, pinkish, yellowish, with smooth conules. In the Florida Keys there are three co-existing morphotypes, gray, red, and yellow, which are not genetically distinct and appear to be the result of ecophenotypic plasticity due to some degree of ecological differentiation (see López-Legentil et al., 2010).
Author Reference: (Lamarck, 1814)
Link: World Porifera Database
Tissue and Spicule Images
Images
vaginalis
- 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
- 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: Florida Keys, United States
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: Bonaire, Netherland Antilles
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: Bonaire, Netherland Antilles
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: Martinique
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: Martinique
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: Martinique
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: Martinique
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: Martinique
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: Martinique
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: Saint Eustatius
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: Saint Eustatius
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: Saint Lucia
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: Little Inagua, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea