-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
Dernière mise à jour 24-11-2022
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 - 2024.
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 2024-12-22.
Source : World Register of Marine Species
Dernière mise à jour 24-11-2022
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 - 2024.
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 2024 December 22.
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