Observed Characteristics:
Color:
- yellow
- orange
- orange-yellow
Morphology:
- encrusting
Consistency:
- crumbly
- tough
Locations:
- Bahamas
- Saint Lucia
Species Description and Notes
Notes: Bright orange yellow crumbly masses filling crevices or growing below laminar corals; oscules and skin tend to be transparent. Bahamas specimens have as megasclere spicules strongyles instead of styles-subtylostyles of other areas; sometimes there are completely white specimens that nevertheless have been confirmed to belong to this species (data from Loh et al., 2010).
Author Reference: (Carter, 1882)
Link: World Porifera Database
Tissue and Spicule Images
Images
laevis
- Location: Bahamas, Sweetings Cay
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Bahamas, Sweetings Cay
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Bahamas, Sweetings Cay
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Bahamas, Sweetings Cay
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Bahamas, San Salvador
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Saint Lucia
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik