Yellow Tube Sponge

The yellow tube sponge is a relatively large sponge to over 3 feet 1 m that lives on coral reefs around the caribbean sea and its adjacent waters. Other than their different color from that of the brown tube sponge the yellow tube sponge is very similar in that it holds an inability to move its only way to retrieve the vital nutrients to survive is food via the water that flows through the pores of the sponge. Aplysina fistularis is a golden or orange brown color with a conulose surface.

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The yellow tube sponge also known as the golden sponge is a species in the class of the demospongiae and thus belongs to the phylum of the porifera.

Yellow tube sponge. It bears this scientific name because it blushes blue when it comes into contact with air. The animal is abundant in the caribbean where it is commonly found in reefs of open water areas. The common name is an accurate description of the species with individuals typically having a yellowish color sometimes almost iridescent yellow blue at deeper depths and consisting of one or more tube like structures.

Tiny hair like structures on the inside of the sponge keep the water circulating. Aplysina aerophoba was first described in 1833 by nardo. This movement is very efficient.

Yellow tube sponges are filter feeders which means that they take in ocean water through their tubes and extract plankton bacteria and dead organic material to consume. Particularly algae is the food that most sponges retrieve. Aerophoba is greek and means fear of air.

Aplysina fistularis commonly known as the yellow sponge or yellow tube sponge is a species of sea sponge in the order verongiida.