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Flat cushions: 0.5 - 3 cm diameter; comprised of a tightly knit trelliswork of tubes about 0.1 cm wide. Bright, lemon-yellow to pale yellow. Compressible, fragile. The surface is smooth. Few ocules: 0.1 - 0.2 cm wide (Ref. 415).
Common, on peat banks and occasionally grow on other sponges (Ref. 415).
Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae
Members of the class Calcarea are hermaphroditic. Life cycle: The zygote develops into either coeloblastula or amphiblastula larva (free-swimming) before settling down on a substrate where it grows into a young sponge.