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Family Pseudoceratinidae

Pseudoceratina crassa

(Hyatt, 1875)

Branching Tube Sponge

Likely Reef Tank Suitable

Likely Fish-Only Tank Suitable

Range: Western Atlantic Ocean: Florida, Caribbean, and the Bahamas to Brazil.

Natural Environment: Inhabits reef slopes and coral rubble.

Aquarium Suitability: Not collected for the home aquarium trade.

Best left in the wild.

Taxonomy:

    Kingdom: Animalia

    Phylum: Porifera

    Class: Demospongiae

    Subclass: Verongimorpha

    Order: Veronglida

    Family: Pseudoceratinidae

    Genus: Pseudoceratina

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.

 Pseudoceratina crassa (Branching Tube Sponge)
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