Color:

pink-lilac
orange
cream

Morphology:

lobate
massive
tube

Consistency:

soft

Sample Locations:

United States

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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.