-agnata-0m.jpg "Raspailia (Parasyringella) agnata")
Glénan Archipelago, France, 15 meters, 2004, WBN
Raspailia (Parasyringella) agnata is an arborescent sponge from 8 to 15 cm in height. The branches are regularly ramified and very often they have a y-shaped tip. The velvety surface is pale yellow.
Many erected species look similar; each have distinctive characteristics:
Axinella damicornis is fan-shaped.
Axinella dissimilis possesses small oscules surrouded by ridules forming a star
Axinella egregia has a rough surface resembling a fur.
Axinella polypoides presents a diameter of the terminal ramifications sligtly tapering.
Raspailia (Parasyringella) agnata It is attached to rocks, boulders and sometimes in cracks from 10 to 40 m deep in the Atlantic Ocean and the English Channel.
Source : World Register of Marine Species
Biota (Superdomain)
Animalia (Kingdom)
Porifera (Phylum)
Demospongiae (Class)
Heteroscleromorpha (Subclass)
Axinellida (Order)
Raspailiidae (Family)
Raspailiinae (Subfamily)
Raspailia (Genus)
Raspailia (Parasyringella) (Subgenus)
Raspailia (Parasyringella) agnata (Species)
Oscule : Opening generally quite visible, through which sponges expel water they have filtered to extract food particles.
Text : Wilfried Bay-Nouailhat © 2004 - 2025.
Photos : ©
Wilfried Bay-Nouailhat. Published with his kind permission.
Websites and reference works : Consult bibliography
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Données de distribution : Raspailia (Parasyringella) agnata (Topsent, 1896) in GBIF Secretariat (2019). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-09-16.
Source : World Register of Marine Species
Biota (Superdomain)
Animalia (Kingdom)
Porifera (Phylum)
Demospongiae (Class)
Heteroscleromorpha (Subclass)
Axinellida (Order)
Raspailiidae (Family)
Raspailiinae (Subfamily)
Raspailia (Genus)
Raspailia (Parasyringella) (Subgenus)
Raspailia (Parasyringella) agnata (Species)
Oscule : Opening generally quite visible, through which sponges expel water they have filtered to extract food particles.
Text : Wilfried Bay-Nouailhat © 2004 - 2025.
Photos : ©
Wilfried Bay-Nouailhat. Published with his kind permission.
Websites and reference works : Consult bibliography
Bay-Nouailhat W., avril 2004, Description of Raspailia (Parasyringella) agnata, [On line] https://european-marine-life.org/02/raspailia-(parasyringella)-agnata.php, consulted on 2025 September 16.
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