Saltcorner
By Bob Goemans
By Bob Goemans
Likely Reef Tank Suitable
Likely Fish-Only Tank Suitable
Range: Western Atlantic Ocean: Florida, Caribbean, and the Bahamas to Brazil.
Natural Environment: Inhabits overhangs in calm clear environments.
Aquarium Suitability: Not collected for the home aquarium trade.
Best left in the wild.
Taxonomy:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Porifera
Class: Demospongiae
Subclass: Heteroscleomorpha
Order: Caenogastropoda
Family: Agelasida
Genus: Agelas
FYI: Shown here for identification only.
Feeds by drawing water in and through its pores and filtering out bacteria and organic particles, then expelling the filtered water out through the osculi.
Has embedded chemicals to prevent tissue loss to predators.
Generally a brownish to pinkish irregularly shaped mass.
