Habitat: In coral reef and sand habitats. Distribution: Caribbean wide Depth: 20 - 80 ft. Characteristics: Shape: Massive-lobate (lobes less than 15 cm high), with oscula on top of lobes. Color: yellow-greenish to brownish externally. Yellow internally. Consistency: compressible, firm. Surface: honeycombed surface with ridges of 1mm wide and up to 5mm high. Rough to the touch.. Apertures: oscules on top of lobes ( up to 3 cm in diameter). Skeleton: No spicules. Skeleton of ambered color fibers (77-220 um in diameter) with a pith ( 54-60 %), arranged prismatically towards the surface, with prismatic mesh ( 130- 1700 m in diameter) Zea (1987).