Aplysinidae
Aplysina archeri (Higgin, 1875)
Aplysina archeri (Higgin, 1875)
Aplysina archeri, the stove-pipe sponge, is a long-lived tube sponge species native to the Western Atlantic Ocean.
Aplysina fulva (Pallas, 1766)
Aplysina fulva (Pallas, 1766)
Aplysina fulva, the scattered pore rope sponge, is an Aplysinidae sponge found in the Caribbean and off Brazil.
Aplysina insularis (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
Aplysina insularis (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
Aplysina insularis is a large tube-forming marine sponge found in Caribbean and western Atlantic reefs, that hosts small fish inside its lumen.
Aplysina fistularis (Pallas, 1766)
Aplysina fistularis (Pallas, 1766)
Aplysina fistularis is a yellow tube sponge, used historically as a bath sponge, with antimicrobial properties and the primary predator hawksbill turtle.
Aplysina cauliformis (Carter, 1882)
Aplysina cauliformis (Carter, 1882)
Aplysina cauliformis is a demosponge species with two color morphologies found primarily in Caribbean shallow coral reefs.
Aplysina aerophoba (Nardo, 1833)
Aplysina aerophoba (Nardo, 1833)
Aplysina aerophoba is a Mediterranean and Atlantic marine yellow sponge that turns blue when exposed to air.
Aplysina cavernicola (Vacelet, 1959)
Aplysina cavernicola (Vacelet, 1959)
Aplysina cavernicola is a yellow marine sponge that accumulates bioactive compounds and is used to study seawater radionuclides.
Verongula rigida (Esper, 1794)
Verongula rigida (Esper, 1794)
Verongula rigida is a Demospongiae sponge species first validly published as Spongia rigida by Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper in 1794.
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