Observed Characteristics:
Color:
- brown
Morphology:
- branching
- fan
- lobate
- vase
Consistency:
- tough
Locations:
- Bahamas
Species Description and Notes
Notes: Brown, massive, lobate, club-shaped, fan-shaped. Surface pierced by numerous round to elongated-contorted holes, interspersed between round oscules with slightly elevated collars. Club shaped, thin individuals can be confused with Agelas cervicornis<(i> (Schmidt, 1870), also pictured here, which is branching and usually thinner. Spicules are acanthostyles.
Author Reference: (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
Link: World Porifera Database
Tissue and Spicule Images
Images
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- 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: Little San Salvador, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: San Salvador, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Egg Island, 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: Little San Salvador, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Not available
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Long Island, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Long Island, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Long Island, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Long Island, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Long Island, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Long Island, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: San Salvador, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Little San Salvador, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Mira por Vos Cays, Bahamas
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: Mira por Vos Cays, Bahamas
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik