Description: Usually grows as small patches with a bright yellow 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. Often found with Aplysilla rosea.

Key Identification Features:

• Bright yellow colour
• Conulose surface

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

iNaturalist: Aplysilla sulfurea at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

GBIF data for Aplysilla sulfurea

WoRMS: Aplysilla sulfurea at World Register of Marine Species. Accepted name: Aplysilla sulfurea Schulze, 1878. AphiaID: 236120.

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