219 species founded

• 4948

  

  Cinachyra antarctica

  Common name - Spiky sponge

  Round, white or pale yellow body, covered in distinctive sticking-out tufts of long spicules. Cinachyra antarctica is a slow-growing sponge and reaches up to 30cm high.

• 4943

  

  Microxina benedeni

  Common name - Pink Staghorn

  Identification is very difficult without expert knowledge. Microxina benedeni is usually white, orange or pink and irregularly shaped, growing up to 18cm high.

• 4936

  

  Pseudosuberites montiniger

• 4934

  

  Mycale (Oxymycale) acerata

  Common name - Slimy sponge

  Mounds of Mycale acerata and the starfish that eat them are a common feature of hard bottom communities. Although it has no programmed shape (like many sponges) it tends to form mounds like those made by termites with many smooth rounded lobes protruding. Sometimes M acerata is the most common sponge and one of the most important contributors of biomass. This sponge is particularly notable for being one of the few sponges, or eve...View more

• 4930

  

  Microxina charcoti

• 4922

  

  Kirkpatrickia variolosa

  Common name - Red sponge

  Vivid red and thickly branching, reaching a size of up to 30cm high

• 4917

  

  Homaxinella flagelliformis

• 4885

  

  Mycale fibrosa