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| sponges text index | photo index |
| Phylum Porifera |
| Sucker sponge Cliona sp.* Family Clionaidae updated Oct 2016 Where seen? Looking like a sprinkle of orange coins, this spong is sometimes seen on reefy shores in the South. Features: Most of this burrowing sponge is hidden. The sponge can bore holes in calcium carbonate skeletons, snail shells to make a home where they live. What is seen on the outside are small sucker-like disks (0.2-1cm). Cliona aff utricularis are bright reddish orange. Other Cliona species may be yellow. |
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*Species are difficult to positively identify without close examination.
On this website, they are grouped by external features for convenience of display.
| Sucker sponges on Singapore shores |
| Photos of Sucker sponges for free download from wildsingapore flickr |
| Distribution in Singapore on this wildsingapore flickr map |
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