Description: Usually grows as small patches with a deep rose-pink colour and a conulose surface. There are no spicules.

Habitat: On the low shore under boulders and in the shallow sublittoral in caves or beneath overhangs.

Key Identification Features:

• Deep rose-pink colour
• Conulose surface

Distribution Map from NBN: Aplysilla rosea at National Biodiversity Network mapping facility, data for UK.

iNaturalist: Aplysilla rosea at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

GBIF data for Aplysilla rosea

WoRMS: Aplysilla rosea at World Register of Marine Species. Accepted name: Aplysilla rosea (Barrois, 1876). AphiaID: 132296.

Classification: Biota; Animalia; Porifera; Demospongiae; Keratosa; Dendroceratida; Darwinellidae; Aplysilla