Color:
green
orange
Morphology:
encrusting
Consistency:
hard
Sample Locations:
Bahamas
Desmanthus incrustans
Notes: Thinly encrusting, dark orange, as a hard crust with an hispid surface, owing respectively to its Lithisthid skeleton of basal desmas (articulated reticulation of silicon spicules) and erect protruding spicules (styles). Looks geen when deep underwater.
Author Reference: (Topsent, 1889)
Link: World Porifera Database