Observed Characteristics:
Color:
- red
- white
- purple-violet
Morphology:
- encrusting
- lobate
- massive
Consistency:
- soft
Locations:
- Bahamas
- United States
Species Description and Notes
Notes: Red to purple, thin encrustations to thick cushions. It stains the fingers when handled. Surface with fields of round, slightly elevated areas which are fields of inhalant pore sieves. Oscules scatteres, slightly elevated or in volcano-like mounds. Florida populations grow upright, masive to lobate.
Author Reference: Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864
Link: World Porifera Database
Tissue and Spicule Images
Images
amaranthus
- Location: Stirrups Cays, N Berry Islands, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Stirrups Cays, N Berry Islands, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Little San Salvador, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Stirrups Cays, N Berry Islands, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Stirrups Cays, N Berry Islands, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Florida Keys, United States
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: Florida Keys, United States
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: Florida Keys, United States
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: Little San Salvador, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Florida Keys, United States
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: Florida Keys, United States
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: Florida Keys, United States
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik