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Ceratoporella nicholsoni
Species: Ceratoporella nicholsoni | View Image Details |
Location: San Salvador, Bahamas | Photographer: Sven Zea |
Species: Ceratoporella nicholsoni | View Image Details |
Location: San Salvador, Bahamas | Photographer: Sven Zea |
Species: Ceratoporella nicholsoni | View Image Details |
Location: San Salvador, Bahamas | Photographer: Sven Zea |
Species: Ceratoporella nicholsoni | View Image Details |
Location: San Salvador, Bahamas | Photographer: Sven Zea |
Species: Ceratoporella nicholsoni | View Image Details |
Location: San Salvador, Bahamas | Photographer: Sven Zea |
Species: Ceratoporella nicholsoni | View Image Details |
Location: San Salvador, Bahamas | Photographer: Joseph Pawlik |
Species: Ceratoporella nicholsoni | View Image Details |
Location: San Salvador, Bahamas | Photographer: Joseph Pawlik |
Species: Ceratoporella nicholsoni | View Image Details |
Location: Northern Exuma Cays, Bahamas | Photographer: Sven Zea |
Species: Ceratoporella nicholsoni | View Image Details |
Location: Little Inagua, Bahamas | Photographer: Sven Zea |
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