massive beige horny sponge

Biemna variantia

Classification

Class: Demospongiae
Order: Biemnida
Family: Biemnidae

Biemna variantia is a species of sponge in the family Biemnidae. It is native to the northwestern Atlantic Ocean, the northeastern Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. This species was first described in 1858 by the British naturalist James Scott Bowerbank, who gave it the name Halichondria variantia.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

France · 13United Kingdom · 1

Sources and credits

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massive beige horny sponge

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