Sponge Worthy?

Well, are you?

If you think you are, then mosey-on over to The Sponge Guide, a brand new web-based, fully searchable pictorial guide to Caribbean sponges.

This guide is the brain-child of taxonomist Sven Zea, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, by database and web-designer Tim Henkel, formerly a PhD student at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, and now a postdoc at Murray State University, KY, and coordinated by Professor Joseph Pawlik with support from the US National Science Foundation, Biological Oceanography Program.

With more than 170 sponge species primarily from the Bahamas currently cataloged on the site, the project coordinators hope to add additional species from the wider Caribbean in coming years.

Check it out and let them know what you think.