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(Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
The Caribbean sponge is dark red, brown, purple or violet with blue reflections, it forms long tubes, its surface feels prickly, thorny, its mucus layer falls off easily when touched and discolors fingers and hands.
However, the sponge can also grow encrusted and fill small cavities in rocks, the sponge contains few sclerites, its consistency is hard but compressible.
Similar species: Clathria spinosa
Bekannte Fehlbestimmungen des karibischen Schwamms:
Acamas laxissima Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864
Acamasina laxissima Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864
Esperella nuda Ridley & Dendy, 1886
Hircinia cartilaginea var. horrida Hyatt, 1877
Hircinia horrida Hyatt, 1877 Hircinia purpurea Whitfield, 1901 Mycale
(Acamasina) laxissima (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
Mycale angulosa sensu De Laubenfels, 1936
Mycale hyatti Pulitzer-Finali, 1986
Mycale jamaicaensis Pulitzer-Finali, 1986
Mycale laxissima (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
Mycale mucifluens Pulitzer-Finali, 1986
Mycale whitfieldi Pulitzer-Finali, 1986
Strongylacidon horridum (Hyatt, 1877)
Thorecta horrida (Hyatt, 1877)
Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Poecilosclerida (Order) > Mycalina (Suborder) > Mycalidae (Family) > Mycale (Genus) > Mycale (Arenochalina) (Subgenus)
The Caribbean sponge is dark red, brown, purple or violet with blue reflections, it forms long tubes, its surface feels prickly, thorny, its mucus layer falls off easily when touched and discolors fingers and hands.
However, the sponge can also grow encrusted and fill small cavities in rocks, the sponge contains few sclerites, its consistency is hard but compressible.
Similar species: Clathria spinosa
Bekannte Fehlbestimmungen des karibischen Schwamms:
Acamas laxissima Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864
Acamasina laxissima Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864
Esperella nuda Ridley & Dendy, 1886
Hircinia cartilaginea var. horrida Hyatt, 1877
Hircinia horrida Hyatt, 1877 Hircinia purpurea Whitfield, 1901 Mycale
(Acamasina) laxissima (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
Mycale angulosa sensu De Laubenfels, 1936
Mycale hyatti Pulitzer-Finali, 1986
Mycale jamaicaensis Pulitzer-Finali, 1986
Mycale laxissima (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
Mycale mucifluens Pulitzer-Finali, 1986
Mycale whitfieldi Pulitzer-Finali, 1986
Strongylacidon horridum (Hyatt, 1877)
Thorecta horrida (Hyatt, 1877)
Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Poecilosclerida (Order) > Mycalina (Suborder) > Mycalidae (Family) > Mycale (Genus) > Mycale (Arenochalina) (Subgenus)