Florent's Guide To The

South Florida Reefs

Azure Vase Sponge
Callyspongia (Cladochalina) plicifera
Azure Vase Sponge
Category: Common Sponges
Scientific Name: Callyspongia (Cladochalina) plicifera
Size: 6 to 18 in. (15 to 45 cm)  
Depth: 20-75 ft. (6-23 m)
Distribution: Caribbean, Bahamas, South Florida
Porifera (Phylum)
└Demospongiae (Class)
 └Heteroscleromorpha (Subclass)
  └Haplosclerida (Order)
   └Callyspongiidae (Family)
    └Callyspongia (Genus)
     └Cladochalina (Subgenus)
      └C. plicifera (Species)

Sponges
Common Sponges

Azure Vase Sponge

Branching Vase Sponge

Elongated Vase Sponge

Erect Rope Sponge

Brown Bowl Sponge

Pink Vase Sponge

Lavender Rope Spounge

Giant Barrel Sponge

Red Encrusting Sponge

Pink Lumpy Sponge

Lumpy Overgrowing Sponge

Green Finger Sponge

Orange-Veined Encrusting Sponge

Peach Encrusting Sponge

Orange Icing Sponge

Strawberry Vase Sponge

Orange Lumpy Encrusting Sponge

Dark Volcano Sponge

Leathery Barrel Sponge

Orange Ball Sponge

Bell Sponge

Stinker Sponge

Black-Ball Sponge

Smenospongia conulosa

Star Encrusting Sponge

Branching Tube Sponge

Row Pore Rope Sponge

Yellow Tube Sponge

Scattered Pore Rope Sponge

Branchlet Sponge

Pitted Sponge

Citron Sponge

Orange Elephant Ear Sponge

Tubulate Sponge

Brown Clustered Tube Sponge

Walper's Branching Sponge

Brown Encrusting Octopus Sponge

Touch-Me-Not Sponge

Brown Variable Sponge

Red Boring Sponge

Loggerhead Sponge

Red-Orange Encrusting Sponge

Pink and Red Encrusting Sponge

High-Veined Encrusting Sponge

Callyspongia fallax



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