Observed Characteristics:
Color:
- yellow
- green
- brown
- purple-violet
- cinnamon-tan
Morphology:
- lobate
- tube
- vase
Consistency:
- soft
- tough
Locations:
- Bahamas
- Martinique
Species Description and Notes
Notes: Thick-walled barrels-jugs, single or in groups. Greenish to purplish in the outside, bright yellow inside, turning purple in air. Skeleton is a pithed spongin fiber network forming the walls of a honeycomb, which show on the surface. A sister species is V. gigantea (Hyatt, 1875) (also pictured in this catalogue), whose shape is that of a thin-walled inverted cone.
Author Reference: Alcolado, 1984
Link: World Porifera Database
Tissue and Spicule Images
Images
reiswigi
- Location: Little San Salvador, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Cat Island, SW, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Great Abaco, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Little San Salvador, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: San Salvador, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Long Island, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Long Island, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Plana Cays, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: San Salvador, Bahamas
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: Martinique
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: San Salvador, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Great Inagua, Bahamas
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: Great Inagua, Bahamas
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik