Pauline Walsh Jacobson, USA
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Aplysina lacunosa (Lamarck, 1814)
"Description:
Single or clustered, thick-walled tapering tubes of up to 35 cm high, 10 cm in diameter, with an apical vent of up to 3.5 cm with an iris type diaphragm (A. lacunosa-close up). The tubes are tapering more strongly towards the base than Aplysina archeri ; often the base is barely 1 cm in diameter. Tube walls deeply intended by irregular meandering grooves or disc-shaped depressions of up to 10 mm deep and wide (A. lacunosa-pitted). Consistency tough and hardly compressible; although there seem to be a hard and a soft form.
Color:
Ridges dark green to yellowish-green, valleys and pits yellow-green to yellow. Interior walls have yellow excurrent pores.
Habitat: Marine Species Indentification Portal
This species is known from reef and lagoon localities and from sandy flats between the reefs. Often have sediment, algae and various organisms on the surface."
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Synonymised names
Aplysina nuciformis (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Aplysina sebae (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Luffaria nuciformis Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 · unaccepted (genus transfer & junior synonym)
Luffaria sebae Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 · unaccepted (genus transfer & junior synonym)
Spongia lacunosa Lamarck, 1814 · unaccepted (genus transfer)
Verongia lacunosa (Lamarck, 1814) · unaccepted
"Description:
Single or clustered, thick-walled tapering tubes of up to 35 cm high, 10 cm in diameter, with an apical vent of up to 3.5 cm with an iris type diaphragm (A. lacunosa-close up). The tubes are tapering more strongly towards the base than Aplysina archeri ; often the base is barely 1 cm in diameter. Tube walls deeply intended by irregular meandering grooves or disc-shaped depressions of up to 10 mm deep and wide (A. lacunosa-pitted). Consistency tough and hardly compressible; although there seem to be a hard and a soft form.
Color:
Ridges dark green to yellowish-green, valleys and pits yellow-green to yellow. Interior walls have yellow excurrent pores.
Habitat: Marine Species Indentification Portal
This species is known from reef and lagoon localities and from sandy flats between the reefs. Often have sediment, algae and various organisms on the surface."
Text source:
Synonymised names
Aplysina nuciformis (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Aplysina sebae (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Luffaria nuciformis Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 · unaccepted (genus transfer & junior synonym)
Luffaria sebae Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 · unaccepted (genus transfer & junior synonym)
Spongia lacunosa Lamarck, 1814 · unaccepted (genus transfer)
Verongia lacunosa (Lamarck, 1814) · unaccepted
