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Avid outdoorsman and underwater photographer, Barry Brown has spent the last seven years documenting life above and below water in Curacao, Netherlands Antilles. Focusing on the island's coral reefs, he has worked hand-in-hand with several businesses and environmental groups, including SECORE, a marine conservation organization based in the Netherlands. His image of a research submersible was recently featured on the cover of DIVER magazine.

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Blue, Pink-Lilac, Purple Sponge, Callyspongia fallax
Sponges
Apr 24, 10     Comments Off

Purple Sponges

Good evening readers, this is going to be fast because Aimee and I are going over to a friends house in just a few minutes. 
 
This turned out to be one of the coolest sponges I found or should I say Sal found in Bonaire.  When I got home I looked and looked for this sponge in books and on-line and couldn’t find a thing and we really needed a name.  So I sent a note to Sven Zea, Ph.D. Professor Titular, Universidad Nacional de Colombia who is one of the leading sponge authorities in the World, check out their site at www.spongeguide.org  Sven immediately wrote us back and confirmed that this was a beautiful cluster of Callyspongia fallax.  He also went on to say that it is rare to see this variety spreading so much because usually you only find these sponges in small colonies.  A big thanks to Tim Henkel as well for first identifying this sponge and then sending me to Sven for confirmation.  Also we have another sponge expert on our list Brendan Biggs that is constantly helping with names and correcting us when we are wrong, we really appreciate his comments and information as well!! 
 
Sorry but I have to go, puppies are doing great, photos soon!!  Bye, Barry

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