Saltcorner
By Bob Goemans
By Bob Goemans
Likely Reef Tank Suitable
Likely Fish-Only Tank Suitable
Range: Western Atlantic Ocean: Caribbean, and the Bahamas.
Natural Environment: Inhabits reef slope areas where current is swift.
Aquarium Suitability: Not collected for the home aquarium trade.
Best left in the wild.
Note: For a photo of this sponge, visit the Marine Invertebrates and Plants of the Living Reef, page 76.
Taxonomy:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Porifera
Class: Demospongiae
Subclass: Heteroscleromorpha
Order: Haplosclerida
Family: Chalinidae
Genus: Amphimedon
FYI: Feeds by drawing water in and through its pores and filtering out bacteria and organic particles, then expelling the filtered water out through the osculi.
Was previously classified as Haliclona rubens, (Pallas, 1766).
