Observed Characteristics:
Color:
- yellow
- orange
- cream
- cinnamon-tan
Morphology:
- encrusting
- massive
Consistency:
- hard
Locations:
- Bahamas
Species Description and Notes
Notes: Pink to yellowish, rounded masses, reminiscent of baby butts. Stony hard owing to its calcareous basal skeleton, which makes it a sclerosponge. Spicules are acanthostyles, curved, 120-310 µm. Found in mid depth (15 m) and deeper reef crevices.
Author Reference: (Hickson, 1911)
Link: World Porifera Database
Tissue and Spicule Images
Images
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- 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: San Salvador, Bahamas
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: San Salvador, Bahamas
- Photographer: Joseph Pawlik
- Location: Northern Exuma Cays, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea
- Location: Little Inagua, Bahamas
- Photographer: Sven Zea