Species Overview

Hymeniacidon sinapium de Laubenfels, 1930

SPONGE:

Shape: Encrusting; often looks woody
Size_Height: --10 cm
Consistency: fragile; fleshy; very soft; compressible

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Color_Alive:
Color_Alcohol: Brown (994622);Tan(D1B362)

HABITAT:

Benthic Region: Marine: Intertidal: Open Coast or Bays
Distribution: Southern California and Central California

Skeleton:

Composition: Silicate
Architecture: spicules in confusion; sometimes with vertical tracts of spicules with points up; to form subdermal brushes near surface
Color: yellow-drab

Oscula:

Rims: often raised on processes

Surface:

Texture: superficially smooth
Contour: conulose and/or with digitate processes

Ectosome:

Architecture: developed into a thin
Color: Mahogany brown

Choanosome:

Architecture: spicules in confusion; sometimes with vertical tracts of spicules with points up; to form subdermal brushes near surface
Color: yellow-drab

Megasclere:

Shape: Style
Length: 115 -(206|317)-460 µ
Width: 3.4--10.2 µ