Saltcorner
By Bob Goemans
By Bob Goemans
Likely Reef Tank Suitable
Likely Fish-Only Tank Suitable
Range: Western Atlantic Ocean: Florida, Caribbean, and the Bahamas to Brazil.
Natural Environment: Inhabits reef slopes and coral rubble.
Aquarium Suitability: Not collected for the home aquarium trade.
Best left in the wild.
Taxonomy:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Porifera
Class: Demospongiae
Subclass: Verongimorpha
Order: Veronglida
Family: Pseudoceratinidae
Genus: Pseudoceratina
FYI: Shown here for identification only.
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.
.jpg "Pseudoceratina crassa (Branching Tube Sponge)")
