Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Esponja (Scalarispongia scalaris), Ċirkewwa, Malta, Malta, 2021-08-24, DD 31.jpg

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• Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Animals#Phylum_:_Porifera
•  Info Sea sponge (Scalarispongia scalaris), Ċirkewwa, Malta Island, Malta. Note: it's the second attempt to get a FP of this sponge species. c/u/n by Poco a poco (talk) 20:32, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
•  Support -- Poco a poco (talk) 20:32, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
•  Neutral It's a nice image, but I fail to see what's extraordinary about this pic. --SHB2000 (talk) 23:05, 12 July 2022 (UTC)

• Hi SHB2000, thanks for your feedback, what I see is a candidate from an order (Dictyoceratida) or even a subclass (Keratosa) from which we have no FP, that's in fact extraordinary and therefore I consider the candidate to be original. I also find the quality pretty good for an underwater shot and the form is also peculiar, most of this kind of sponges look like a ball, not like a ring. Poco a poco (talk) 23:05, 13 July 2022 (UTC)

•  Support I like it – good quality shot of a fascinating black creature. This sponge looks somewhat other-worldly to me ;–). --Aristeas (talk) 07:22, 14 July 2022 (UTC)
•  Support I like it, too, and it's nice and sharp. I only regret that the shells make the background on the left not as harmonious as the rest of the background, but that might be asking too much. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 08:04, 14 July 2022 (UTC)
•  Support per above. -- IamMM (talk) 09:44, 14 July 2022 (UTC)
•  Support @ Ikan Kekek: This are not shells, but algae, I suppose Padina pavonica (peacock's tail) or a related species --Llez (talk) 10:12, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

• Right id Llez, thank you! you see them often in the area. Poco a poco (talk) 12:38, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

• Thanks for explaining that, Llez. It doesn't change my reaction to how they look in the context of this composition, but it's interesting. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 15:19, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

•  Support --Cayambe (talk) 14:05, 14 July 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Another great underwater shot :) — Urban Versis 32^KB ⚡ ^{(talk | contribs)} 23:48, 14 July 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Daniel Case (talk) 05:52, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
•  Support --Famberhorst (talk) 15:45, 16 July 2022 (UTC)
•  Support --Yann (talk) 14:19, 17 July 2022 (UTC)
•  Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 14:40, 17 July 2022 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 11 support, 0 oppose, 1 neutral → featured. /Ikan Kekek (talk) 02:05, 18 July 2022 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Animals#Phylum_:_Porifera