Color:
pink-lilac
orange
cream
Morphology:
lobate
massive
tube
Consistency:
soft
Sample Locations:
United States
Batzella sp.-"creamy salmon"
Notes: Thick encrustations, or masses, with irregular lobes. Skin color creamy, over an orange internal tissue, producing an overal withish salmon color. Consistency soft. Spicules are straight strongyles with one of the sides slightly engrossed and the other slighlty pointed, making them look like subtylostyles. Spicules are equal in shape to co-existing Batzella rubra (Alcolado, 1984), also pictured here, but shorter in length and slightly stouter. Needs to be compared to Batzella rosea van Soest, 1984.