Color:

red
orange

Morphology:

encrusting

Consistency:

soft

Sample Locations:

Bahamas

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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