Color:
brown
pink-lilac
cream
cinnamon-tan
Morphology:
vase
Consistency:
crumbly
hard
Sample Locations:
Bahamas
Martinique
Saint Eustatius
Xestospongia muta
Notes: Large barrels, golden to reddish brown. Surface sometimes even, but usually with numerous irregular, finger-shaped, pyramidal or lamellated projections. Top usually thin-walled, usually also with projections. Interior of atria rough, as a bubble-like pattern. Zea (1987) synonymized X. rampa (de Laubenfels, 1934) with this species, but more recently Rützler et al. (2014) described it as a good, separate species.
Author Reference: (Schmidt, 1870)
Link: World Porifera Database