Color:
yellow
green
cream
cinnamon-tan
Morphology:
encrusting
fan
massive
Consistency:
crumbly
tough
Sample Locations:
Bahamas
Cliona varians
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Species: Cliona varians View Image Details Location: Bahamas, Sweetings Cay Photographer: Sven Zea -
Species: Cliona varians View Image Details Location: Bahamas, Sweetings Cay Photographer: Sven Zea -
Species: Cliona varians View Image Details Location: Bahamas, Stirrups Cays, N Berry Islands Photographer: Joseph Pawlik -
Species: Cliona varians View Image Details Location: Bahamas, Stirrups Cays, N Berry Islands Photographer: Joseph Pawlik -
Species: Cliona varians View Image Details Location: Bahamas, Cat Island, SW Photographer: Sven Zea -
Species: Cliona varians View Image Details Location: Bahamas, Sweetings Cay Photographer: Sven Zea -
Species: Cliona varians View Image Details Location: Bahamas, Little San Salvador Photographer: Sven Zea -
Species: Cliona varians View Image Details Location: Bahamas, Little San Salvador Photographer: Sven Zea -
Species: Cliona varians View Image Details Location: Bahamas, Plana Cays Photographer: Sven Zea -
Species: Cliona varians View Image Details Location: Bahamas, Plana Cays Photographer: Sven Zea -
Species: Cliona varians View Image Details Location: Bahamas, Plana Cays Photographer: Sven Zea -
Species: Cliona varians View Image Details Location: Bahamas, Plana Cays Photographer: Sven Zea -
Species: Cliona varians View Image Details Location: Bahamas, Sweetings Cay Photographer: Sven Zea -
Species: Cliona varians View Image Details Location: Bahamas, Long Island Photographer: Sven Zea -
Species: Cliona varians View Image Details Location: Bahamas, Long Island Photographer: Sven Zea -
Species: Cliona varians View Image Details Location: Bahamas, Little San Salvador Photographer: Sven Zea -
Species: Cliona varians View Image Details Location: Bahamas, Bimini Photographer: Sven Zea -
Species: Cliona varians View Image Details Location: Bahamas, Bimini Photographer: Sven Zea -
Species: Cliona varians View Image Details Location: Bahamas, Great Inagua Photographer: Sven Zea
Notes: Previously placed under genus Anthosigmella. Encrusting and excavating sponge. Dull orange to tan or brownish, thick encrustations that may cover several square meters of substratum. Oscules are relatively large, paler and slighlty elevated.
Author Reference: (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
Link: World Porifera Database