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Sample Locations:
Xestospongia muta
Species: Xestospongia muta | View Image Details |
Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas | Photographer: Sven Zea |
Species: Xestospongia muta | View Image Details |
Location: Stirrups Cays, N Berry Islands, Bahamas | Photographer: Joseph Pawlik |
Species: Xestospongia muta | View Image Details |
Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas | Photographer: Sven Zea |
Species: Xestospongia muta | View Image Details |
Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas | Photographer: Sven Zea |
Species: Xestospongia muta | View Image Details |
Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas | Photographer: Joseph Pawlik |
Species: Xestospongia muta | View Image Details |
Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas | Photographer: Joseph Pawlik |
Species: Xestospongia muta | View Image Details |
Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas | Photographer: Joseph Pawlik |
Species: Xestospongia muta | View Image Details |
Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas | Photographer: Joseph Pawlik |
Species: Xestospongia muta | View Image Details |
Location: San Salvador, Bahamas | Photographer: Sven Zea |
Species: Xestospongia muta | View Image Details |
Location: San Salvador, Bahamas | Photographer: Joseph Pawlik |
Species: Xestospongia muta | View Image Details |
Location: Saint Eustatius | Photographer: Joseph Pawlik |
Species: Xestospongia muta | View Image Details |
Location: Great Inagua, Bahamas | Photographer: Joseph Pawlik |
Species: Xestospongia muta | View Image Details |
Location: Hogsty Reef, Bahamas | Photographer: Joseph Pawlik |
Species: Xestospongia muta | View Image Details |
Location: San Salvador, Bahamas | Photographer: Joseph Pawlik |
Species: Xestospongia muta | View Image Details |
Location: San Salvador, Bahamas | Photographer: Joseph Pawlik |
Notes: Large barrels, golden to reddish brown. Surface sometimes even, but usually with numerous irregular, finger-shaped, pyramidal or lamellated projections. Top usually thin-walled, usually also with projections. Interior of atria rough, as a bubble-like pattern. Zea (1987) synonymized X. rampa (de Laubenfels, 1934) with this species, but more recently Rützler et al. (2014) described it as a good, separate species.
Author Reference: (Schmidt, 1870)
Link: World Porifera Database