Florent's Guide To The
Florida, Bahamas and
Caribbean Reefs
Common Sponges
Brain Sponge
Citron Sponge
Orange Elephant Ear Sponge
Brown Tube Sponge
Tubulate Sponge
Brown Clustered Tube Sponge
Walper's Branching Sponge
Brown Encrusting Octopus Sponge
Touch-Me-Not Sponge
Coral Encrusting Sponge
Cliona tenuis
Brown Variable Sponge
Red Boring Sponge
Loggerhead Sponge
Red-Orange Encrusting Sponge
Orange Sieve Encrusting Sponge
Pink and Red Encrusting Sponge
High-Veined Encrusting Sponge
Pink Purple Octopus Sponge
Branching Vase Sponge
Azure Vase Sponge
Elongated Vase Sponge
Erect Rope Sponge
Brown Bowl Sponge
Pink Vase Sponge
Lavender Rope Spounge
Neopetrosia rosariensis
Giant Barrel Sponge
Variable Boring Sponge
Rough Tube Sponge
Red Encrusting Sponge
Pink Lumpy Sponge
Lumpy Overgrowing Sponge
Green Finger Sponge
Orange-Veined Encrusting Sponge
Pandaros acanthifolium
Strawberry Vase Sponge
Orange Icing Sponge
Orange Lumpy Encrusting Sponge
Dark Volcano Sponge
Circular Column Sponge
Dercitus (Halinastra) luteus
Leathery Barrel Sponge
Orange Ball Sponge
Bell Sponge
Stinker Sponge
Black-Ball Sponge
Smenospongia aurea
Smenospongia conulosa
Star Encrusting Sponge
Branching Tube Sponge
Stove-Pipe Sponge
Row Pore Rope Sponge
Yellow Tube Sponge
Scattered Pore Rope Sponge
Branchlet Sponge
Convoluted Barrel Sponge
Netted Barrel Sponge
Reticulated Barrel Sponge
Pitted Sponge
Slime Sponges
Plakina jamaicensis
Viscous Sponge
Plakortis halichondrioides
Calcareous Sponges
Yellow Calcareous Sponge
White Cryptic Sponge
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