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Sponge

Porifera

Description:

Length ot the tubes 20 cm

Habitat:

Coral reef in the Red Sea, near Hurghada

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5 Comments

Benno Ibold
Benno Ibold 10 years ago

Thx for the advice.

cyrilbrossard
cyrilbrossard 10 years ago

Sorry, but this branch of marine biology may require the advise of an expert (which I am not), usually samples are needed, spicule shape, density and tissue are studied in detail to differentiate subspecies. Was the body soft or rigid? What is the diameter of a tube and the length of the structure? Better chance to get proper advise from a university... You may try to contact Edwin Cruz-Rivera from The American University in Cairo, he might be able to know someone up to the task.

Benno Ibold
Benno Ibold 10 years ago

Thank you for your help. I always thought, it's a sponge, but on the sites I visited I found no advice of any species.

cyrilbrossard
cyrilbrossard 10 years ago

it is a demosponge... I am no specialist but proper identification of porifera may prove tricky.

The MnMs
The MnMs 10 years ago

Some sort of tube sponges :-)

Benno Ibold
Spotted by
Benno Ibold

الغردقة, Egypt

Spotted on Jul 8, 2006
Submitted on Aug 30, 2013

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