המועדפים של blue_lotus

Reef in outer lagoon.
Guessing. See this brown one from time to time.

Reef in outer lagoon.

white sponge in foreground

Fringing reef.

IDed with spicule prep

IDed with spicules

Outer edge fringing reef. 3-6m.
Looks a bit like Spirastrella cunctatrix but location is wrong!

8-16m deep

IDing the whitish sponges (?) looking like a tube on the right top corner

Pink Rubber

These yellow orange brownish sponges were very prevalent under most ledges in depths greater than ~1 m,during this ~ 2 hour snorkel from shore.

Cream mesh-like colony @~centre=subject.Under turned rock,on sandy rubble.

Subject=the navy blue ball sponges.

Exposed at low tide on the down facing side of a rock.

Guess. Attached to red algae

A decade ago, this was undescribed, even to family. Not sure if there have been any taxonomic developments on this sponge since then.

Two of these were sighted among seagrass.

central light green one

At 12m depth

Large irregular sponge on side of jetty pile in heavy shade.

ID for the blue one

3-14m wall, overhangs.

3-14m wall, overhangs.

Golf Ball Sponge (Tethya sp.)

Eagles dive site
Around 70ft
79F