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Sponge or Tunicate?

Started by JKrumsick ·

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Sponge or Tunicate?

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  1. So I think it looks like a Strawberry vase sponge - Mycale laxissima. But I don't think sponges have "lips" at the openings? The lip reminds me of a tunicate but then I have never seen a tunicate quite like this...

     

    6322128701_0c71bace75_b.jpg

    yysp_y09_m09_0020.jpg by I(heart)Fish, on Flickr

     

    Thanks!

  2. So I think it looks like a Strawberry vase sponge - Mycale laxissima. But I don't think sponges have "lips" at the openings? The lip reminds me of a tunicate but then I have never seen a tunicate quite like this...

     

    6322128701_0c71bace75_b.jpg

    yysp_y09_m09_0020.jpg by I(heart)Fish, on Flickr

     

    Thanks!

     

    I'd defintely go with your first choice here..Strawberry Vase Sponge. It's not a tunicate.

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