Observed Characteristics:
Color:
- pink-lilac
- orange
- cream
- cinnamon-tan
- orange-yellow
Morphology:
- encrusting
- fan
- lobate
- massive
- vase
Consistency:
- soft
- tough
Locations:
- Bahamas
- Netherland Antilles
- Saint Lucia
- United States
Species Description and Notes
Notes: Pinkish, tan or orange, ear-shaped thick fans; orange when filling crevices. The latter may be confused with Clathria faviformis Lehnert & van Soest, 1996, pictured here. It may be confused with Agelas clathrodes (Schmidt, 1870), also pictured here, which is harder. A. citrina has a thick skin, which in some portions forms conules or it is stretched over depressions. When they co-exist in the same locality, they can be distinguised by color, being milkier and lighter in A. citrina. Spicules are acanthostyles.
Author Reference: Gotera & Alcolado, 1987
Link: World Porifera Database
Tissue and Spicule Images
Images
citrina
- 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: Little San Salvador, 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: Little San Salvador, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: San Salvador, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: San Salvador, 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: Little San Salvador, 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: Little San Salvador, 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: San Salvador, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Little San Salvador, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Florida, Boynton Beach, United States
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Florida, Boynton Beach, United States
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Bonaire, Netherland Antilles
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: Bonaire, Netherland Antilles
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: Bonaire, Netherland Antilles
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: Bonaire, Netherland Antilles
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: Curaçao, Netherland Antilles
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: Curaçao, Netherland Antilles
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: Saint Lucia
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: Saint Lucia
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: Hogsty Reef, Bahamas
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: Plana Cays, Bahamas
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik