Color:
yellow
orange
orange-yellow
Morphology:
encrusting
Consistency:
crumbly
tough
Sample Locations:
Bahamas
Saint Lucia
Mycale laevis
Notes: Bright orange yellow crumbly masses filling crevices or growing below laminar corals; oscules and skin tend to be transparent. Bahamas specimens have as megasclere spicules strongyles instead of styles-subtylostyles of other areas; sometimes there are completely white specimens that nevertheless have been confirmed to belong to this species (data from Loh et al., 2010).
Author Reference: (Carter, 1882)
Link: World Porifera Database