Red-Orange Encrusting Sponge

Coastal Habitats

Animals of the Nearshore Waters 

Red-orange Encrusting Sponge

Crambe crambe

The orange encrusting sponge is a multicellular animal that lives attached to marine reefs.  It is usually bright orange or red, but may be pale grey to brown. It grows over branches of the telesto coral, appearing to be part of the soft coral, and also cup corals, barnacles whose defenses are often effective against the smothering of sponges.

Animals of the Nearshore Waters

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Brown Tube Sponge

Red Boring Sponge

Red-Orange Encrusting Sponge

Tree Oyster

Ivory Bush Coral

Cup Coral

Pearly Red Encrusting Bryozoan

Black Drum

Crevalle Jack

Florida Pompano

Sand Seatrout

Tarpon

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