Observed Characteristics:
Color:
- orange
Morphology:
- branching
- encrusting
- lobate
- papillated
- tube
Consistency:
- tough
Locations:
- Bahamas
- United States
Species Description and Notes
Notes: Thin-walled, orange thin tubes and lobes arising from a crevice-filling mass. It may be a variation of Agelas sventres Lehnert & van Soest, 1996, also pictured here. Agelas wiedenmayeri Alcolado, 1984, pictured here, also has tubes arising from the substratum, but these are brown. Spicules are acanthostyles.
Author Reference: Wilson, 1902
Link: World Porifera Database
Tissue and Spicule Images
Images
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- 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: Stirrups Cays, N Berry Islands, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Stirrups Cays, N Berry Islands, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Plana Cays, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Florida, Boynton Beach, United States
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Florida, Boynton Beach, United States
- Photographer: Sven Zea