Color:
orange
Morphology:
encrusting
lobate
massive
spherical
Consistency:
tough
Sample Locations:
Bahamas
Netherland Antilles
Agelas sventres
Notes: Orange, football shaped to crevice filling with lobate outgrowths; round oscules with a collar. Areas with fields of pores. Previous authors called it an orange morphotype of Agelas dispar (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864). It can be confused with small Agelas clathrodes (Schmidt, 1870), also pictured here. A. sventres usually has softer, cavernous lobes crown with holes or oscules. Spicules are acanthostyles.
Author Reference: Lehnert & van Soest, 1996
Link: World Porifera Database