Illes Medes, Spain, 18 meters, 2011, WBN
Illes Medes, Spain, 15 meters, 2011, WBN
Clathrina clathrus is a calcareous sponge of 10 cm in diameter forming a tangle of tubes which are between 0,5 and 3 mm in diameter and interconnected in a very dense network. The oscules, quite visible, are located at the intersections of the largest tubes. It is translucent and bright yellow. Yellow network sponge lives attached to rocky overhangs, crevices and on cave walls in calm water areas.
Clathrina coriacea is a rather similar calcareous sponge but it is white.
Clathrina clathrus is found from 1 to 20 m deep, in the Mediterranean Sea and in the North-Western Atlantic Ocean from Canary Islands to the British Isles, but its distribution is probably not so septentrional.
Source : World Register of Marine Species
Dernière mise à jour 24-11-2022
Animalia (Kingdom)
Porifera (Phylum)
Calcarea (Class)
Calcinea (Subclass)
Clathrinida (Order)
Clathrinidae (Family)
Clathrina (Genus)
Clathrina clathrus (Species)
Calcareous sponge : sponge with limestone carbonate spicules.
Oscule : opening generally quite visible, through which sponges expel water they have filtered to extract food particles.
Text : Wilfried Bay-Nouailhat, Anne Bay-Nouailhat © 2006 - 2024.
Photos : ©
Wilfried Bay-Nouailhat. Published with his kind permission.
Websites and reference works : Consult bibliography
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Données de distribution : Clathrina clathrus (Schmidt, 1864) in GBIF Secretariat (2019). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-30.
Source : World Register of Marine Species
Dernière mise à jour 24-11-2022
Animalia (Kingdom)
Porifera (Phylum)
Calcarea (Class)
Calcinea (Subclass)
Clathrinida (Order)
Clathrinidae (Family)
Clathrina (Genus)
Clathrina clathrus (Species)
Calcareous sponge : sponge with limestone carbonate spicules.
Oscule : opening generally quite visible, through which sponges expel water they have filtered to extract food particles.
Text : Wilfried Bay-Nouailhat, Anne Bay-Nouailhat © 2006 - 2024.
Photos : ©
Wilfried Bay-Nouailhat. Published with his kind permission.
Websites and reference works : Consult bibliography
Bay-Nouailhat W., Bay-Nouailhat A., April 2006, Description of Clathrina clathrus, [On line] https://european-marine-life.org/02/clathrina-clathrus.php, consulted on 2024 December 30.
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