Brown Variable Sponge

Cliona varians

• Group: Other

This sponge bores into dead coral and reef rock, hollowing out shallow excavations on reef flats, in lagoons and seagrass beds. It occasionally eats into living coral too, and also turns up in mangrove ponds.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Porifera › Demospongiae › Clionaida › Clionaidae › Cliona

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 170485.