Geodia gibberosa - Wikipedia

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Geodia gibberosa
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Porifera
Class:	Demospongiae
Order:	Astrophorida
Family:	Geodiidae
Genus:	Geodia
Species:	G. gibberosa
Binomial name
*Geodia gibberosa* Lamarck, 1815
Synonyms
Geodia cariboea Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 Geodia flexisclera Pulitzer-Finali, 1986 Geodia tumulosa Bowerbank, 1872

Geodia gibberosa (the white encrusting sponge)^[1] is a Caribbean sea sponge. It is known to be eaten by hawksbill turtles.^[2]

Characteristics

The Geodia gibberosa is a large, dense sponge. It can be white or pale tan when exposed to very little light, or dark brown in areas with a lot of it.^[3] It is usually in the form of a knobby, fist-like mass, often up to 50 cm in diameter. It may also occur as a spherical mass without projections and is also known to form large colonies that resemble rounded calcareous rocks.^[4] Its skeleton is a bunch of needle-like spicules radiating outward from the center near the surface, much more randomly dispersed on the inside.^[3]

Geodia gibberosa is found in the Bahamas, Florida, Brazil, and west Africa.^[5]^[3] It's commonly found in shallow waters with hard bottoms, generally in the same area as seagrasses.^[3]

Bibliography

"Geodia gibberosa". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 15 February 2007.

References

^ http://www.bio.georgiasouthern.edu/GR-inverts/grlist.html?spp=Geodiagibberosa&filaindex=9
^ "Species Booklet: Hawksbill sea turtle". Virginia Fish and Wildlife Information Service. Virginia Department of Game & Inland Fisheries. Archived from the original on 2006-09-24. Retrieved 2007-02-06. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Geodia gibberosa Lamarck, 1815 Astrophorida, Geodiidae". Retrieved February 15, 2014.
^ http://www.gsmfc.org/seamap/picture_guide/Other/geodia%20gibberosa.pdf
^ http://www.spongeguide.org/speciesinfo.php?species=176

v t e Geodia
Species	G. acanthylastra G. agassizi G. alba G. amadaiba G. amphistrongyla G. anceps G. angulata G. apiarium G. arabica G. areolata G. arripiens G. ataxastra G. atlantica G. auroristella G. australis G. barretti G. basilea G. berryi G. bicolor G. breviana G. carteri G. cidaris G. composita G. conchilega G. cooksoni G. crustosa G. cumulus G. cydonium G. cylindrica G. dendyi G. depressa G. distincta G. divaricans G. dura G. dysoni G. echinastrella G. eosaster G. erinacea G. exigua G. gallica G. geodina G. gibberella G. gibberosa G. gigas G. glariosa G. globosa G. globostellifera G. globus G. hentscheli G. hilgendorfi G. hirsuta G. hyotania G. inaequalis G. inconspicua G. isabella G. japonica G. kuekenthali G. labyrinthica G. lacunata G. libera G. lindgreni G. littoralis G. lophotriaena G. macandrewii G. magellani G. media G. megaster G. megastrella G. mesotriaenella G. micropora G. micropunctata G. nigra G. nodastrella G. orthomesotriaena G. ovifractus G. ovis G. papyracea G. parasitica G. paupera G. pergamentacea G. peruncinata G. philippinensis G. piriformis G. placenta G. pleiades G. poculata G. punctata G. ramodigitata G. ramosa G. regina G. reniformis G. riograndensis G. robusta G. robusta G. roviniensis G. senegalensis G. simplex G. sparsa G. sphaeroides G. spheranthastra G. spherastrea G. spherastrella G. spherastrosa G. splendida G. stellata G. stellosa G. stromatodes G. strongyla G. thomsoni G. tuber G. tuberculosa G. tuberosa G. tylastra G. variospiculosa G. vaubani G. vestigifera

Taxon identifiers
Geodia gibberosa	Wikidata: Q647386 Wikispecies: Geodia gibberosa BOLD: 152458 CoL: 6KC8W GBIF: 2247565 iNaturalist: 131691 IRMNG: 11428616 ITIS: 48613 NCBI: 458494 Observation.org: 903968 OBIS: 170126 Open Tree of Life: 949233 SeaLifeBase: 51742 WoRMS: 170126

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