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Family: Aplysinidae
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Bocas Species Database Habitat: Deeper parts of reefs (> 5 m deep). Distribution: Caribbean, Brasil, Bermuda. Characteristics: Hollow cylinders (up to 1 m high). Surface with deep grooves (.5-1 cm deep), and finely conulose (0.5 mm high and 0.5-1 m apart). Yellow, green, ochre, or reddish-brown, externally, tan-yellowhish internally. Oscules with membrane on top of of the tube (2-8 cm in diameter). Compressible but tough. Skeleton : regular reticulated fibers of spongin (pithed about 40%) of one kind (width 80 um). Large polygonal meshes (about 1000 to 1500 um). Notes: Synonyms: Luffaria nuciformis Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 Luffaria sebae Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 Spongia lacunosa Lamarck, 1814 |