sponges text index
Phylum Porifera
Photo index of sponges on Singapore shores

branching or lumpy
encrusting
balls, vases
other shapes

Sponge species are difficult to positively identify without dissection and examination of internal parts.
On this website, they are grouped by external features for convenience of display.

These lifeforms are NOT sponges

Solitary
sea squirt

Phylum Chordata
Class Ascidiacea

Yellow clustered bead ascidians
Phylum Chordata
Class Ascidiacea

Rock slime
ascidians

Phylum Chordata
Class Ascidiacea
   

Puffy
brown seaweed

Colpomenia
sp.

Bubble seaweed
Boergesenia forbesii
   

how to tell apart blob-like lifeforms
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