Observed Characteristics:
Color:
- brown
- pink-lilac
- cream
- cinnamon-tan
Morphology:
- vase
Consistency:
- crumbly
- hard
Locations:
- Bahamas
- Martinique
- Saint Eustatius
Species Description and Notes
Notes: Large barrels, golden to reddish brown. Surface sometimes even, but usually with numerous irregular, finger-shaped, pyramidal or lamellated projections. Top usually thin-walled, usually also with projections. Interior of atria rough, as a bubble-like pattern. Zea (1987) synonymized X. rampa (de Laubenfels, 1934) with this species, but more recently Rützler et al. (2014) described it as a good, separate species.
Author Reference: (Schmidt, 1870)
Link: World Porifera Database
Tissue and Spicule Images
Images
muta
- Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Stirrups Cays, N Berry Islands, Bahamas
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: San Salvador, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: San Salvador, Bahamas
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: Martinique
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: Saint Eustatius
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: Great Inagua, Bahamas
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: Hogsty Reef, Bahamas
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: San Salvador, Bahamas
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: San Salvador, Bahamas
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik