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Scopalina ruetzleri
Species: Scopalina ruetzleri | View Image Details |
Location: Crooked Island, Bahamas | Photographer: Not available |
Species: Scopalina ruetzleri | View Image Details |
Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas | Photographer: Sven Zea |
Species: Scopalina ruetzleri | View Image Details |
Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas | Photographer: Sven Zea |
Species: Scopalina ruetzleri | View Image Details |
Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas | Photographer: Sven Zea |
Species: Scopalina ruetzleri | View Image Details |
Location: San Salvador, Bahamas | Photographer: Sven Zea |
Species: Scopalina ruetzleri | View Image Details |
Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas | Photographer: Sven Zea |
Species: Scopalina ruetzleri | View Image Details |
Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas | Photographer: Sven Zea |
Species: Scopalina ruetzleri | View Image Details |
Location: Sweetings Cay, Bahamas | Photographer: Joseph Pawlik |
Species: Scopalina ruetzleri | View Image Details |
Location: Florida Keys, United States | Photographer: Joseph Pawlik |
Notes: Originally described under genus Ulosa. Rather soft and fluffy orange to orange-yellow cushions. Surface conulose, rather transparent, with scatered and membranous oscules. Naturally shrunk specimens look less transparent and show tufts of spicules at the tip of conules. It may be confused in the field with Prosuberites laughlini (Díaz, Alvarez & van Soest, 1987), also pictured here.
Author Reference: (Wiedenmayer, 1977)
Link: World Porifera Database