Observed Characteristics:
Color:
- pink-lilac
- orange
- cinnamon-tan
Morphology:
- tube
- vase
Consistency:
- tough
Locations:
- Bahamas
Species Description and Notes
Notes: Pinkish/orange, thick jugs-tubes; surface with round oscules surrounded by convoluted deep crevices which are rather homogenously distributed throughout the body. May be confused with some Agelas tubulata Lehnert & van Soest, 1996, also pictured here, having some deep crevices or lumps unevenly distributed in parts of the body (some specimens were hard to assign to either A. cerebrum or to A. tubulata), but usually those do not have the oscules or fields of pores among recesses. Spicules are acanthostyles.
Author Reference: Assman, van Soest & Köck, 2001
Link: World Porifera Database
Tissue and Spicule Images
Images
cerebrum
- Location: Little San Salvador, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Little San Salvador, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Little San Salvador, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Little San Salvador, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Santo Domingo Cay, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Santo Domingo Cay, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Santo Domingo Cay, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Santo Domingo Cay, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: NW Passage, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: NW Passage, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: NW Passage, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: NW Passage, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Little San Salvador, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Northern Exuma Cays, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: Northern Exuma Cays, Bahamas
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: Little San Salvador, Bahamas
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: Little San Salvador, Bahamas
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: Little San Salvador, Bahamas
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik