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Demospongiae > Haplosclerida > Petrosiidae > Xestospongia deweerdtae "free living"

Observed Characteristics:

Color:

pink-lilac
orange

Morphology:

massive
tube

Consistency:

tough

Sample Locations:

Bahamas

Species Description and Notes

Notes: Pinkish to orange thick encrustations with volcano-shaped oscules. Consistency firmy compressible, crumbly. Spicules are perfect strongyles 325-400 x 10-20 µm arranged in the ectosome as a tangential unispicular reticulation, and in the choanosome as multispicular reticulation.

Author Reference: Lehnert & van Soest, 1999

 

Link: World Porifera Database

 

Images

Xestospongia deweerdtae "free living"


Location: Bahamas, Plana Cays
Photographer: Sven Zea