Sponge

Iotrochota arenosa

• Group: Other
• For divers: safe

This sponge encrusts sand and rubble across coral reefs, lagoons and mangroves and clings to pilings down to about 45 metres. It pumps water through countless pores, straining out the fine particles it lives on.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Porifera › Demospongiae › Poecilosclerida › Iotrochotidae › Iotrochota

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 240545.