![]() May be confused with club-shaped individuals of Agelas dispar (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864), which are thicker. Pink-lilac,orange,cinnamon-tan,tube,vase,toughīrown, thin to thicker, smooth to undulate, erect branches with scattered oscules. tubulata), but usually those do not have the oscules or fields of pores among recesses. May be confused with some Agelas tubulata Lehnert & van Soest, 1996 having some deep crevices or lumps unevenly distributed in parts of the body (some specimens were hard to assign to either A. Pinkish/orange, thick jugs-tubes surface with round oscules surrounded by convoluted deep crevices which are rather homogenously distributed throughout the body. ![]() Light pink or lilac irrugular vases-tubes hanging from cave roofs consistency stiff, like fiberglass large triactine calcareous spicules stab fingers. For a comprehensive analysis of the genus Clathrina see Klautau & Valentine (2003). It looks similar to Clathrina primordialis (Haeckel, 1872) described from Jamaica by Lehnert & van Soest, 1998. We have not collected this species to define its generic or specific status. Upright yellow, rather transparent masses with tube-like oscules. For Clathrina revision see Klautau & Valentine (2003). Apparently, there is no available name for Caribbean populations of this species. It can belong to another genus (Leucascus?) or family of the order Clathrinida. ![]() Yellow cushions with upper or scattered oscula, made of riddled tubules, but somehow compact and possibly sharing a cortex. ![]() It may correspond to Clathrina coriacea (Montagu, 1818) described by several Caribbean authors (a name from NE Atlantic). ![]() Use the Search Box to query names and notes on all sponges Class ![]()
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