Observed Characteristics:
Color:
- yellow
- orange
- cinnamon-tan
Morphology:
- branching
Consistency:
- tough
Locations:
- Bahamas
Species Description and Notes
Notes: Withish orange, creeping or erect branches, sometimes flattened or contorted. Oscules dispersed throughout the surface, usually with a collar. Sometimes with dark zoanthids. It can be confused with branching Agelas cervicornis (Schmidt, 1870), which is brown. Spicules acanthostyles.
Author Reference: (Lamarck, 1815)
Link: World Porifera Database
Tissue and Spicule Images
Images
sceptrum
- Location: Little San Salvador, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Plana Cays, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Plana Cays, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Plana Cays, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Plana Cays, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Plana Cays, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Plana Cays, Bahamas
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- 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: Long Island, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Long Island, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: San Salvador, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: San Salvador, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: 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: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: Plana Cays, Bahamas
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik