Gray Encrusting Sponge
Gelliodes fibrosa
- Group: Other
- For divers: safe
The gray encrusting sponge mostly settles in busy harbours and other disturbed spots, coating fouled surfaces and the shaded undersides of plate corals on patch reefs. It spreads as a thin crust over hard surfaces and strains its food from the water moving through it, posing no danger to divers.
Taxonomy: Animalia › Porifera › Demospongiae › Haplosclerida › Niphatidae › Gelliodes
Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 166722.
FAQ
- Is the Gray Encrusting Sponge dangerous to divers?
- The Gray Encrusting Sponge is harmless to divers.