Spaghetti Sponge

Leucosolenia nautilia

• Group: Other

A delicate sponge of fine, tangled white tubes, it grows over hard surfaces in shallow water. This one was found spreading across a mussel on the hull of a boat, and like all calcareous sponges it pumps seawater through its tubes to filter out tiny particles.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Porifera › Calcarea › Leucosolenida › Leucosoleniidae › Leucosolenia

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 164536.