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Haliclona sponge
Haliclona loosanoffi(?)
41.842, -72.5546
Field Notes
Description:
Definitely an encrusting sponge. Pale, almost white, slightly fuzzy in appearance. Obvious excurrent pores. Straight, silica spicules visible under 100x microscope. Encrusting on the live rock in a 75 gallon salt tank.
Habitat:
Atlantic coast from Cape Cod to south, lower intertidal zone. Hardy - produces reproduction gemmules that survive winter.
(Marine Animals of Southern New England & New York, Howard Weiss (1995))
Notes:
Likely added to my tank w/from shells of hermit crabs collected at Bluff Point in Groton, CT back in October 2010. Have now reproduced to the point that I had to physically remove much of them from the live rock. Can apparently handle wildly fluctuating water quality.
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