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Demospongiae > Agelasida > Agelasidae > Agelas sventres

Observed Characteristics:

Color:

orange

Morphology:

encrusting
lobate
massive
spherical

Consistency:

tough

Sample Locations:

Bahamas
Netherland Antilles

Species Description and Notes

Notes: Orange, football shaped to crevice filling with lobate outgrowths; round oscules with a collar. Areas with fields of pores. Previous authors called it an orange morphotype of Agelas dispar (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864). It can be confused with small Agelas clathrodes (Schmidt, 1870), also pictured here. A. sventres usually has softer, cavernous lobes crown with holes or oscules. Spicules are acanthostyles.

Author Reference: Lehnert & van Soest, 1996

 

Link: World Porifera Database

 

Images

Agelas sventres


Location: Bahamas, Little San Salvador
Photographer: Sven Zea

Location: Bahamas, Sweetings Cay
Photographer: Sven Zea

Location: Bahamas, Sweetings Cay
Photographer: Sven Zea

Location: Bahamas, Little San Salvador
Photographer: Sven Zea

Location: Bahamas, Plana Cays
Photographer: Joseph Pawlik

Location: Bahamas, Plana Cays
Photographer: Sven Zea

Location: Bahamas, Plana Cays
Photographer: Sven Zea

Location: Bahamas, Egg Island
Photographer: Sven Zea

Location: Bahamas, Egg Island
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, 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, Plana Cays
Photographer: Sven Zea

Location: Netherland Antilles, Curaçao
Photographer: Joseph Pawlik

Location: Bahamas, Plana Cays
Photographer: Sven Zea

Location: Bahamas, Plana Cays
Photographer: Sven Zea