Branching Tube Sponge

Description:

Photo take at -40 ft in a Caribbean reef abundant on the reef this species of Sea Sponge is very common in all the Caribbean.Branching tube sponge. Chiefly massive, frequently lobate to rarely ramose. Ramose outcrops up to 15 cm long, lobes up to 6 cm high. Total size up to 17 cm in diameter in massive specimens. Surface irregularly conulose, with large smooth areas showing fields of pores Interconnecting ridges between the conules may enclose polygonal depressions. Conules acute or low and blunt, 2-4 mm high, 2-7 mm apart, but quite irregularly distributed. Oscules 2-4 mm in diameter, on lobal outcrops

Habitat:

Found from south Florida all The Caribbean sea to Colombia.