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Family Aplysinidae

Aplysina archeri

(Higgin, 1875)

Stovepipe Sponge

Likely Reef Tank Suitable

Likely Fish-Only Tank Suitable

Range: Western Atlantic Ocean: Florida, Caribbean, Bahamas, and Bonaire.

Natural Environment: Inhabits deep calm waters and sometimes found attached to vertical walls.

Aquarium Suitability: Not collected for the home aquarium trade.

Best left in the wild.

Taxonomy:

    Kingdom: Animalia

    Phylum: Porifera

    Class: Demospongiae

    Subclass: Verongimorpha

    Order: Verongiida

    Family: Aplysinidae

    Genus: Aplysina

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.

A singe tube can reach 5 feet (150 cm) in height.

Shown here for identification only.

 Aplysina archeri (Stovepipe Sponge)
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