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Demospongiae > Agelasida > Agelasidae > Agelas conifera

Observed Characteristics:

Color:

brown
orange
cinnamon-tan

Morphology:

branching
fan
lobate
tube

Consistency:

tough

Sample Locations:

Bahamas
Netherland Antilles

Species Description and Notes

Notes: Browhish/pinkish/cinnamon orange, laterally fused tubes, running on branches or growing on one another, and usually arising from a single base, forming antlers or clubs. Often with darker zoanthids livion on the skin. May be confused with Agelas tubulata Lehnert & van Soest, 1996, also pictured here, in which the tubes usually arise from the base close to the substratum. Spicules are acanthostyles.

Author Reference: (Schmidt, 1870)

 

Link: World Porifera Database

 

Images

Agelas conifera


Location: Bahamas, Little San Salvador
Photographer: Sven Zea

Location: Bahamas, Little San Salvador
Photographer: Sven Zea

Location: Bahamas, Little San Salvador
Photographer: Sven Zea

Location: Bahamas, Sweetings Cay
Photographer: Sven Zea

Location: Bahamas, Sweetings Cay
Photographer: Sven Zea

Location: Bahamas, Sweetings Cay
Photographer: Sven Zea

Location: Bahamas, Sweetings Cay
Photographer: Sven Zea

Location: Bahamas, Sweetings Cay
Photographer: Sven Zea

Location: Bahamas, Sweetings Cay
Photographer: Sven Zea

Location: Bahamas, Sweetings Cay
Photographer: Sven Zea

Location: Bahamas, Sweetings Cay
Photographer: Sven Zea

Location: Bahamas, Sweetings Cay
Photographer: Sven Zea

Location: Bahamas, Sweetings Cay
Photographer: Sven Zea

Location: Bahamas, Sweetings Cay
Photographer: Sven Zea

Location: Bahamas, Sweetings Cay
Photographer: Sven Zea

Location: Bahamas, NW Passage
Photographer: Sven Zea

Location: Bahamas, NW Passage
Photographer: Sven Zea

Location: Bahamas, NW Passage
Photographer: Sven Zea

Location: Bahamas, NW Passage
Photographer: Sven Zea

Location: Bahamas, NW Passage
Photographer: Sven Zea

Location: Bahamas, NW Passage
Photographer: Sven Zea

Location: Bahamas, Little San Salvador
Photographer: Sven Zea

Location: Bahamas, Little San Salvador
Photographer: Sven Zea

Location: Bahamas, Little San Salvador
Photographer: Sven Zea

Location: Bahamas, Little San Salvador
Photographer: Sven Zea

Location: Bahamas, Stirrups Cays, N Berry Islands
Photographer: Sven Zea

Location: Netherland Antilles, Bonaire
Photographer: Joseph Pawlik

Location: Netherland Antilles, Bonaire
Photographer: Joseph Pawlik

Location: Netherland Antilles, Curaçao
Photographer: Joseph Pawlik

Location: Bahamas, Great Inagua
Photographer: Sven Zea

Location: Bahamas, Great Inagua
Photographer: Sven Zea

Location: Bahamas, Great Inagua
Photographer: Sven Zea

Location: Bahamas, Little Inagua
Photographer: Sven Zea

Location: Bahamas, Hogsty Reef
Photographer: Joseph Pawlik