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By Bob Goemans
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Family Chalinidae

Haliclona cymiformis

(Esper, 1794)

Branching Tree Sponge

Likely Reef Tank Suitable

Likely Fish-Only Tank Suitable

Range: Indian Ocean: Madagascar.

Natural Environment: Inhabits reef slope areas where current is swift.

Aquarium Suitability: Not collected for the home aquarium trade.

Best left in the wild.

Taxonomy:

    Kingdom: Animalia

    Phylum: Porifera

    Class: Demospongiae

    Subclass: Heteroscleromorpha

    Order: Haplosclerida

    Family: Chalinidae

    Genus: Haliclona

FYI: 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.

Shown here for identification only.

 Haliclona cymiformis (Branching Tree Sponge)
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