Color:
pink-lilac
orange
Morphology:
massive
tube
Consistency:
tough
Sample Locations:
Bahamas
Xestospongia deweerdtae "free living"
Notes: Pinkish to orange thick encrustations with volcano-shaped oscules. Consistency firmy compressible, crumbly. Spicules are perfect strongyles 325-400 x 10-20 µm arranged in the ectosome as a tangential unispicular reticulation, and in the choanosome as multispicular reticulation.
Author Reference: Lehnert & van Soest, 1999
Link: World Porifera Database