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Aplysina cauliformis, the Row Pore Rope Sponge. Long rows of excurrent siphons. Occur in tints of purple, reds. Bonaire 2019.



Diplastrella sp. Red-Orange Encrusting Sponge. Areas of tightly arranged collected areas of incurrent siphons, with scattered larger excurrent.  Caribbean. To ten inches, seventy five feet in depth. Found in shaded areas, even under rocks, overhangs. Bonaire 2019.



Diplastrella megastellata Red-Orange Encrusting Sponge. Areas of tightly arranged collected areas of incurrent siphons, with scattered larger excurrent.  Caribbean. To ten inches, seventy five feet in depth. Found in shaded areas, even under rocks, overhangs. Bonaire 2019.
 


Agelas sventres, /The Sponge Guide:

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

Bonaire 2019.
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