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Demospongiae > Agelasida > Agelasidae > Agelas cerebrum

Observed Characteristics:

Color:

pink-lilac
orange
cinnamon-tan

Morphology:

tube
vase

Consistency:

tough

Sample Locations:

Bahamas

Species Description and Notes

Notes: Pinkish/orange, thick jugs-tubes; surface with round oscules surrounded by convoluted deep crevices which are rather homogenously distributed throughout the body. May be confused with some Agelas tubulata Lehnert & van Soest, 1996, also pictured here, having some deep crevices or lumps unevenly distributed in parts of the body (some specimens were hard to assign to either A. cerebrum or to A. tubulata), but usually those do not have the oscules or fields of pores among recesses. Spicules are acanthostyles.

Author Reference: Assman, van Soest & Köck, 2001

 

Link: World Porifera Database

 

Images

Agelas cerebrum


Location: Bahamas, Little San Salvador
Photographer: Sven Zea

Location: Bahamas, Sweetings Cay
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, Sweetings Cay
Photographer: Sven Zea

Location: Bahamas, Santo Domingo Cay
Photographer: Sven Zea

Location: Bahamas, Santo Domingo Cay
Photographer: Sven Zea

Location: Bahamas, Santo Domingo Cay
Photographer: Sven Zea

Location: Bahamas, Santo Domingo 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, Little San Salvador
Photographer: Sven Zea

Location: Bahamas, Northern Exuma Cays
Photographer: Sven Zea

Location: Bahamas, Sweetings Cay
Photographer: Joseph Pawlik

Location: Bahamas, Northern Exuma Cays
Photographer: Joseph Pawlik

Location: Bahamas, Little San Salvador
Photographer: Joseph Pawlik

Location: Bahamas, Little San Salvador
Photographer: Joseph Pawlik

Location: Bahamas, Little San Salvador
Photographer: Joseph Pawlik