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Demospongiae > Agelasida > Agelasidae > Agelas conifera

Observed Characteristics:

Color:

  • brown
  • orange
  • cinnamon-tan

Morphology:

  • branching
  • fan
  • lobate
  • tube

Consistency:

  • tough

Locations:

  • Bahamas
  • Netherland Antilles

Species Description and Notes

Notes: Browhish/pinkish/cinnamon orange, laterally fused tubes, running on branches or growing on one another, and usually arising from a single base, forming antlers or clubs. Often with darker zoanthids livion on the skin. May be confused with Agelas tubulata Lehnert & van Soest, 1996, also pictured here, in which the tubes usually arise from the base close to the substratum. Spicules are acanthostyles.

Author Reference: (Schmidt, 1870)

 

Link: World Porifera Database

Tissue and Spicule Images

Images

conifera

  • 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: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas
  • Photographer: Sven Zea
  • Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas
  • Photographer: Sven Zea
  • Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas
  • Photographer: Sven Zea
  • Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas
  • Photographer: Sven Zea
  • Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas
  • Photographer: Sven Zea
  • Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas
  • Photographer: Sven Zea
  • Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas
  • Photographer: Sven Zea
  • Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas
  • Photographer: Sven Zea
  • Location: Sweetings 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: NW Passage, Bahamas
  • Photographer: Sven Zea
  • Location: NW Passage, 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: Stirrups Cays, N Berry Islands, Bahamas
  • Photographer: Sven Zea
  • Location: Bonaire, Netherland Antilles
  • Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
  • Location: Bonaire, Netherland Antilles
  • Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
  • Location: Curaçao, Netherland Antilles
  • Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
  • Location: Great Inagua, Bahamas
  • Photographer: Sven Zea
  • Location: Great Inagua, Bahamas
  • Photographer: Sven Zea
  • Location: Great Inagua, Bahamas
  • Photographer: Sven Zea
  • Location: Little Inagua, Bahamas
  • Photographer: Sven Zea
  • Location: Hogsty Reef, Bahamas
  • Photographer: Joseph Pawlik