Observed Characteristics:
Color:
- red
- white
- brown
- cream
- cinnamon-tan
Morphology:
- fan
- vase
Consistency:
- crumbly
Locations:
- Bahamas
Species Description and Notes
Notes: Ear to fan-shaped, uniformly thick (ca. 1 cm), smooth, crumbly, reddish brown (pale in shaded parts). Can be confused with Cribrochalina vasculum (Lamarck, 1814), also pictured here, which is tougher and elastic. Also, with Petrosia weinbergi van Soest, 1980, pictured here, with which it shares a wide range size of oxea spicules, but lack the small toxa, is more crispy in consistency, and is greenish.
Author Reference: (de Laubenfels, 1934)
Link: World Porifera Database
Tissue and Spicule Images
Images
(Petrosia) pellasarca
- Location: San Salvador, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Little San Salvador, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Northern Exuma Cays, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Northern Exuma Cays, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea