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Thick encrusting: 0.4 - 3 cm, or massive to large vases: up to 80 cm wide and high. Brown-red in color externally, tan internally. Surface varies from smooth and porous, to corrugated and micro hispid, somewhat velvety. Oscules dispersed: 0.3 - 0.6 cm wide. Firm but fragile (Ref. 415).
Maximum depth reported taken from Ref. 128739. On reef environments, usually under 5 m deep (Ref. 415). Also found in mangroves (Ref. 86836). Dwells in coral reefs or rock pavements in shallow depths. Possibly associated with polychaete worms (Ref. 128739).
Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae
Members of the class Demospongiae are hermaphroditic. Life cycle: The zygote develops into parenchymella larva (free-swimming) before settling down on a substrate where it grows into a young sponge.