Common name: Bath or Commercial Sponge
Class: Demospongiae
Location: Mediterranean Sea, Caribbean Sea and West Indies.
Description of Habitat: 5-30 meters deep in 16-23 degree Celsius ocean water.
Facts: used as a bath sponge. It takes seven years for a sponge to grow large enough to harvest.
Human impact: harvest of them has lead them to become a rare animal.
http://species-identification.org/species.php?species_group=sponges&id=412
http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=165220
http://www.eol.org/pages/1163106/overview
http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=165220
http://www.eol.org/pages/1163106/overview