Color:
red
orange
Morphology:
encrusting
Consistency:
soft
Sample Locations:
Bahamas
Clathria (Microciona) spinosa
Notes: Bright orange encrustations with smooth to spiny surface. Frequently found under platy corals, with their oscules showing up at the coral plate edge, in a way similar to Mycale laevis (Carter, 1882), also pictured here.
Author Reference: Wilson, 1902
Link: World Porifera Database