Alex Mustard / Portrait of a Giant frogfish (Antennarius commersoni) on a large Yellow elephant ear sponge (Ianthella basta). Bitung, North Sulawesi, Indonesia. Lembeh Strait, Molucca Sea.
Juergen Freund / Elephant ear sponge (Ianthella basta) with a Triplefin blenny resting on it, West New Britain, Papua New Guinea.
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Juergen Freund / Detail of Orange elephant ear sponge (Agelas clathrodes) with crinoid / featherstar attached, Kimbe Bay, West New Britain, Papua New Guinea.
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Juergen Freund / Details of Orange elephant ear sponge (Agelas clathrodes) with crinoids / featherstars attached, Kimbe Bay, West New Britain, Papua New Guinea
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Juergen Freund / Orange elephant ear sponge (Agelas clathrodes), with other sponges and gorgonians, Indo-pacific
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Norbert Wu / Elephant Ear Sponge (Ianthella basta) with schools of Black-tipped Fusiliers (Pterocaesio digramma) swimming behind, Solomon Islands
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Chris Newbert / Elephant Ear Sponge (Ianthella basta) and schooling Barracuda (Sphyraena genie) in background, 110 feet deep, Solomon Islands
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Alex Mustard / Portrait of a Giant frogfish (Antennarius commersoni) on a large Yellow elephant ear sponge (Ianthella basta) on a coral reef. Bitung, North Sulawesi, Indonesia. Lembeh Strait, Molucca Sea.
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Franco Banfi / Elephant ear sponge (Ianthella basta) with a scuba diver swimming in he background, Gorgonia Wall Reef, Cabilao Island, Bohol, Central Visayas, Philippines, Pacific Ocean.
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Tony Wu / Yellow elephant ear sponge (Ianthella basta) with unique lighting to make it resemble a sculpture, Hornbill Channel in Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea.
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Franco Banfi / Reef with Orange elephant ear sponge (Agelas clathrodes) and scuba diver on the background, Santa Lucia, Camaguey, Cuba, Caribbean Sea, Atlantic Ocean. November 2007.
Pascal Kobeh / Diver above the reef with Caribbean sea whips (Plexaura homomalla), Elephant ear sponge (Agelas clathrodes) and a Great star coral (Montastraea cavernosa), San Salvador Island / Colombus Island, Baham...
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Pascal Kobeh / Diver above the reef with Elephant ear sponges (Agelas clathrodes), San Salvador Island / Colombus Island, Bahamas. Caribbean. June 2013.
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Pascal Kobeh / Diver on coral reef with Giant barrel sponge (Xestospongia muta), Elephant ear sponge (Agelas clathrodes) and coral, San Salvador Island / Colombus Island, Bahamas. Caribbean. June 2013.
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Pascal Kobeh / Diver on coral reef with a Giant barrel sponge (Xestospongia muta), Elephant ear sponge (Agelas clathrodes) and corals, San Salvador Island / Colombus Island, Bahamas. Caribbean. June 2013.
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Sue Daly / Elephant Hide / Ear Sponge (Pachymatisma johnstonia) Grune du Nord, Sark, British Channel Islands, September.
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Sue Daly / Elephant Hide / Ear Sponge (Pachymatisma johnstonia) Vingt Clos, Sark, British Channel Islands, August.
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Sue Daly / Elephant's ear sponge (Pachymatisma johnstonia) Channel Islands, UK June
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Juergen Freund / Elephant ear sponge (Ianthella basta) covered in Featherstars / crinoids, West New Britain, Papua New Guinea.
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Juergen Freund / Elephant ear sponge (Ianthella basta) Kimbe Bay, West New Britain, Papua New Guinea.
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Juergen Freund / Elephant ear sponge (Ianthella basta) in the reef. Misool, Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia.
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Juergen Freund / Elephant ear sponge (Ianthella basta) in the reef with a diver swimming behind. Misool, Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia.
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Juergen Freund / Elephant ear sponge (Ianthella basta) in the reef with a shoal of fish swimming behind. Misool, Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia.
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Juergen Freund / Elephant ear sponge (Ianthella basta) in the reef with a shoal of fish swimming behind. Misool, Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia, January.
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Juergen Freund / Elephant ear sponge (Ianthella basta) in the reef with a diver swimming behind. Misool, Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia.
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Sue Daly / Elephant hide sponge (Pachymatisma johnstonia) underwater, Channel Isles, UK, June
Chris Newbert / Elephant Ear Sponge (Ianthella basta) growing on coral reef, Solomon Islands
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Chris Newbert / Sponge (Phakellia sp) on coral reef, Solomon Islands
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Chris Newbert / Elephant Ear Sponge (Lanthellidae) 80 feet deep, Papua New Guinea
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Fred Bavendam / Fusilier (Caesio sp) school stream by an Elephants Ear Sponge (Ianthella basta) laden with Crinoids, Kimbe Bay, WNBI, Papua New Guinea
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Constantinos Petrinos / Tassled scorpionfish {Scorpaenopsis oxycephala} in Elephant ear sponge (Langhella basta} Sulawesi
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Roberto Rinaldi / Giant sea fan (Gorgonacea sp.) and Elephant ear sponge (Acanthella sp.), Flinders Reef, Australia
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Roberto Rinaldi / Elephant ear sponge (Lanthella sp) covered with worm like creatures that are synaptid sea cucumbers (Synaptidae sp.), Australia.
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Alex Mustard / Reef scene with Orange elephant ear sponge (Agelas clathrodes), Brown tube sponges (Agelas conifera), Deepwater sea fans (Iciligorgia nodulifera), Creole wrasses (Clepticus parrae) and Fairy basslets...
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David Fleetham / Yellow elephant ear sponge (Ianthella basta) with dark-coloured Whiteline sea cucumbers (Synaptula lamperti) and the paler, unnamed species, Philippines.
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Alex Mustard / A reef scene with an orange elephant ear sponge (Ianthella basta) and red sea whip (Ellisella sp) with schooling silversides fish above. Pelee Island, Misool, Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia. Ceram...
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Alex Mustard / Coral reef scene, with Philippines chromis (Chromis scotochiloptera), hard coral (Acropora sp.) and purple elephant ear sponges (Ianthella basta). Apo Island Marine Protected Area, Dumaguete, Negros,...