Red Ball Sponge

Dragmacidon lunaecharta

Classification

Class: Demospongiae
Order: Axinellida
Family: Axinellidae

Dragmacidon lunaecharta, also known as the red ball sponge or red boring sponge, is a species of sea sponge found in the western Atlantic Ocean. It feeds on plankton. These sponges do not attach themselves to rocks or the sea floor but drift in water currents.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 9Mexico · 4Cuba · 2Netherlands · 1

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Sebastián de Jesús Herrera Buenfil, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY DescriptionDragmacidon lunaecharta, Wikipedia contributors

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