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Mycale laevis

Synonyms: Esperella fusca; Esperia laevis; Mycale fusca; Oxymycale strongylata

Wikipedia Abstract

Mycale laevis, the orange icing sponge or orange undercoat sponge, is a species of marine demosponge in the family Mycalidae. Mycale is a large genus and this species is placed in the subgenus Mycale making its full name, Mycale (Mycale) laevis. This sponge is found in the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico and usually grows in association with one of a small number of species of coral.
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Predators

Holacanthus ciliaris (Yellow angelfish)[1]
Oreaster reticulatus (cushioned star)[2]
Pomacanthus arcuatus (Pot cover)[3]

External References

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)
♦ 2SPONGE PREDATORS MAY DETERMINE DIFFERENCES IN SPONGE FAUNA BETWEEN TWO SETS OF MANGROVE CAYS, BELIZE BARRIER REEF, JANIE L. WULFF, ATOLL RESEARCH BULLETIN NO. 477, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 2000
♦ 3Jorrit 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