Observed Characteristics:
Color:
- black
Morphology:
- encrusting
Consistency:
- tough
Locations:
- Bahamas
Species Description and Notes
Notes: Black, thickly encrusting; skeleton as a reticulation of spongin fibers with a few spicules embedded in the ascending fibers. It can be confused with dark brown encrusting Amphimedon compressa Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864, also pictured here. It has a reticulation of clear spongin fibers with a few spicules included. When touched, a subsuperficial pattern of vertical canals, wider than in A. compressa, is visible below the ectosome.
Author Reference: (Duchassaing, 1850)
Link: World Porifera Database
Tissue and Spicule Images
Images
complanata
- Location: Stirrups Cays, N Berry Islands, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Stirrups Cays, N Berry Islands, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea