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sponges
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| Phylum Porifera |
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prickly sponge Echinodictyum conulosum* Family Raspailiidae updated Dec 11 Where seen? This black prickly sponge is sometimes seen on our Northern shores. Features: A small prickly bushy shape made up of lobes with many large cavities. Texture with many prickly spikes. The skeleton is made up of a large proportion of silica to spongin and it has thick, robust bundles of spicules (hard, spiky bits). Holes scattered irregularly on the surface with a membranous lip which is more obvious when the sponge is submerged. Colour is black with a purple tinge. |
 East Coast Park, Aug 09 |
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Black prickly sponges on Singapore shores
 Pulau Ubin, Dec 09 |
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 Chek Jawa, Oct 10  |
 Changi, Apr 12  |
 Changi, Apr 12  |
*Species are difficult to positively identify without close examination.
On this website, they are grouped by external features for convenience of display.
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