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Yellow finger sponge

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Yellow finger sponge

Shown here growing among seaweeds on a reef in the Kāpiti Island Marine Reserve is Raspalia, a finger sponge.

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Dennis Gordon and Maggy Wassilieff, Marine animals without backbones – Sponges and jellies, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/5792/yellow-finger-sponge (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Dennis Gordon and Maggy Wassilieff, published 2 March 2009.