UK Diving » Seasearch Sponge ID Course - Plymouth May 08 » sponge_a _likes

There was no shortage of spongey things - here's 'what not to ID' when it comes to sponges - Porifera. Mostly repeats from the main gallery

Dead mans fingers - Alcyonium digitatum - a soft coral...	A patch of Orange sea squirts - Stolonica socialis - one...	A colonial club sea squirt, perhaps densely packed...	Lightbulb sea squirts - Clavelina lepadiformis	Lightbulb sea squirts - Clavelina lepadiformis
Some very small ascidians, hiding behind a horseshoe of...	Lightbulb squirts	Lightbulb sea squirts - Clavelina lepadiformis	Out on its own the Spiny starfish - Marthasterias...	Again random parts of a spiny starfish can be mistaken...
Another spiny starfish	P5174733	Dense clumps of colonial club sea squirts - Morchellium...	This is probably a dirty little squirt - maybe -...	Lightbulb sea squirts - Clavelina lepadiformis
Lightbulb sea squirts - Clavelina lepadiformis	A crevice cucumber - Pawsonia saxicola? - is more like a...	Deadmens fingers - Alcyonium digitatum - are more...	Each polyp is clearly an anemone like feeding head - if...	Not a sponge - Diplosoma spongiforme - the Sponge sea...
A tiny bryozoan colony - most sponges have a less open...	A Sea cucumber - Holothuria forskali - spongey but short...	See no holes in the body. Although sponges can be spikey...	This cryptic Devonshire cup coral - Caryophyllia smithii...	The tentacles are often nearly invisible and the hard...
These guys could all be candidates, especially the middle...	The colonial club sea squirts - Morechellium argus - are...	In this shot you can see the 'ribs' of each squirts body...	The structure is clearer on (slightly) larger squirts...	I don't think you'd mistake this Double spiral fanworm -...
Clearly not a sponge at all!	A group of club squirts, these are only ~10mm high so its...	The Sponge sea squirt again - a really tough one. If it...	People mistake the strangest things for sponge... when...	The gas mantle squirt - Corella parallelogramma - looks a...
Slugs are probably too small to pose as sponges - but...	Encrusting sponge can sneek in anywhere - but this is a...

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