Soft-walled tubes are medium brown to tan to grayish brown with lighter interiors. Although the exterior can be somewhat lumpy or pitted, the surface texture tend to be quite smooth.

- Tubulate sponge Agelas tubulata.
The tubes usually arise from the base close to the substratum.

Size: Large, up to 1m high.
Colour: Brow, pink, orange or green..
Shape: laterally fused tubes, running on branches or growing on one another, and usually arising from a single base, forming antlers or clubs. Often with darker zoanthids living on the skin. 
Constitution: Firm.

Lives in protected crevices of reefs and walls.

BES-eilanden: Bonaire, St. Eustatius.

[Niels Schrieken, march 2015]; [Floris Bennema, april 2016]

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- The Sponge Guide. S. Zea, Henkel, T.P., and Pawlik, J.R. 2014.
- Thacker, R. W., Díaz, M. C., De Voogd, N. J., Van Soest, R. W., Freeman, C. J., Mobley, A. S. & McKenna, S. (2010). Preliminary assessment of sponge biodiversity on Saba Bank, Netherlands Antilles. PloS one, 5(5), e9622. - Sponges Saba Bank

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