Sponges - Phylum Porifera

Sponge<br />
Comments by Tom Lee Turner:<br />
"Either Penares saccharis or Penares cortius. (I found a Penares cortius during the DISCO Bioblitz, and I don't know yet if we can tell the two species apart from photos.)"<br />
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"I haven't (yet!!) found anything else that looks like this in the Santa Barbara Channel or Channel Islands."<br />
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Underwater Arch, Palos Verdes, California<br />
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ID thanks to Thomas Turner, Associate Professor, UCSB

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Sponge
Comments by Tom Lee Turner:
"Either Penares saccharis or Penares cortius. (I found a Penares cortius during the DISCO Bioblitz, and I don't know yet if we can tell the two species apart from photos.)"

"I haven't (yet!!) found anything else that looks like this in the Santa Barbara Channel or Channel Islands."

Underwater Arch, Palos Verdes, California

ID thanks to Thomas Turner, Associate Professor, UCSB

20111224 sponge

Sponges - Phylum Porifera

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