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By Bob Fenner
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Genus Monanchora:
| Monanchora arbuscula (Duchassaing & Michelotti
1864), the Red Encrusting
Sponge. Bright red to pink thin-walled sheets, with darker radiating veins from excurrent
siphons Bahamas and Cozumel pix. In older works listed as M.
barbadensis. To 10 inches across. |
 
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| Monanchora barbadensis, see M. arbuscula
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| Monanchora unguifera, the Fine Lumpy Sponge.
Pink/reddish lumpy 4-16 inch colonies (diameter). Veined canals over cone
shaped openings. Bahamas pic. |
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Genus Mycale:
| Mycale fistulifera (Row 1911). Red Sea, Sudan, Indian
Ocean. Here in the Red Sea in 2019, infested w/ the hydrozoan Nausithoe
punctata. |
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| Mycale laevis, the White or Orange King or Boring Sponge.
Bright orange to yellow with white excurrent siphons. Grow under,
about a few species of stony corals, actually protecting them from bio-erosion by other/boring sponge species. Bahamas images. |
 
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| Mycale laxissima. Strawberry Vase Sponge.
Bright reds and oranges. Attached to solid substrates.
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