Orange wall sponge

orange wall sponge
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Porifera
Class:	Demospongiae
Order:	Hadromerida
Family:	Trachycladidae
Genus:	Trachycladus
Species:	T. spinispirulifer
Binomial name
Trachycladus spinispirulifer (Carter, 1879)

The orange wall sponge, Trachycladus spinispirulifer, is a species of demosponge belonging to the family Hadromerida^[1]. It is found in the south Atlantic and Indo-Pacific oceans. Around the South African coast, it is known from the Cape Peninsula to Cape Agulhas.

Description

The orange wall sponge may grow to 20 cm thick and up to 2m in length. It is a very large firm orange-skinned sponge with a yellow interior. It grows as a wall and does not show obvious oscula^[1].

Habitat

This sponge lives on rocky reefs in 5-350m of water.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Samaai, T. and Gibbons, M.J. 2005. Demospongiae taxonomy and biodiversity of the Benguela region on the west coast of South Africa. Afr. Nat. Hist. 1(1):1-96

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