Multiple choice

Which of the following sponges is characterised by rubbery, cheese-like consistency?

  1. Agelas clathrodes

  2. Agelas conifera

  3. Agelas nsp.

  4. Amphimedon viridis

  5. Aiolochroia crassa
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Explanation

These sponges are  chiefly massive, frequently lobate to rarely ramose. Ramose outcrops up to 15 cm long, lobes up to 6 cm high. Total size up to 17 cm in diameter in massive specimens. Their surface is irregularly conulose, with large smooth areas showing fields of pores. The consistency is rubbery, cheese-like and somewhat compressible.

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