Observed Characteristics:
Color:
- pink-lilac
- orange
- cream
Morphology:
- lobate
- massive
- tube
Consistency:
- soft
Locations:
- United States
Species Description and Notes
Notes: Thick encrustations, or masses, with irregular lobes. Skin color creamy, over an orange internal tissue, producing an overal withish salmon color. Consistency soft. Spicules are straight strongyles with one of the sides slightly engrossed and the other slighlty pointed, making them look like subtylostyles. Spicules are equal in shape to co-existing Batzella rubra (Alcolado, 1984), also pictured here, but shorter in length and slightly stouter. Needs to be compared to Batzella rosea van Soest, 1984.
Tissue and Spicule Images
Images
sp.-“creamy salmon”
- Location: Florida, Boynton Beach, United States
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Florida, Boynton Beach, United States
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Florida, Boynton Beach, United States
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Florida, Boynton Beach, United States
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Florida Keys, United States
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: Florida Keys, United States
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik