Observed Characteristics:
Color:
- brown
- cinnamon-tan
Morphology:
- tube
Consistency:
- tough
Locations:
- Bahamas
- United States
Species Description and Notes
Notes: Brown clusters of tubes coming up from a basal, crevice filling mass. Similarly-looking but orange tubes are Agelas schmidti Wilson, 1902, also pictured here. Spicules are acanthostyles.
Author Reference: Alcolado, 1984
Link: World Porifera Database
Tissue and Spicule Images
Images
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- Location: Cat Cays - Bimini, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Cat Cays - Bimini, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Florida, Boynton Beach, United States
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Florida, Boynton Beach, United States
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Bimini, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Cat Cays - Bimini, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Cat Cays - Bimini, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Cat Cays - Bimini, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Florida Keys, United States
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik