Animalia > Porifera > Demospongiae > Dictyoceratida > Irciniidae > Ircinia > Ircinia strobilina

Ircinia strobilina (Stinking pillow sponge)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Ircinia strobilina is a species of sponge in the family Irciniidae. It is grey or shiny black in colour, with spiny structures (conules) dotting the surface. The spiny structures are interconnected by ridges, though not arranged in an orderly lattice. This species is globular and massive in shape, but usually no more than 0.3 metres (1 ft) across. I. strobilina is lobed and spherical and has a tough consistency. The large excurrent pores are located in depressions at the top of the sponge. Many smaller incurrent pores are scattered across the surface, more densely at the sides.
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Predators

Cantherhines macrocerus (Whitespotted filefish)[1]
Holacanthus ciliaris (Yellow angelfish)[1]
Holacanthus tricolor (Yellow nanny)[2]
Pomacanthus arcuatus (Pot cover)[2]

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Sponge-feeding fishes of the West Indies, J. E. Randall and W. D. Hartman, Marine Biol. 1, 216-225 (1968)
2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0