Observed Characteristics:
Color:
- yellow
- green
- brown
- pink-lilac
- orange
- cinnamon-tan
Morphology:
- fan
- vase
Consistency:
- soft
- tough
Locations:
- Bahamas
Species Description and Notes
Notes: Inverted cones with relatively thin walls, 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. reiswigi Alcolado, 1984 (also pictured in this catalogue), whose shape is that of a thick-walled barrel or jug.
Author Reference: (Hyatt, 1875)
Link: World Porifera Database
Tissue and Spicule Images
Images
gigantea
- Location: Great Abaco, 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: Long Island, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Great Inagua, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Great Inagua, Bahamas
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: Hogsty Reef, Bahamas
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: Little Inagua, Bahamas
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: San Salvador, Bahamas
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik