Species Overview

Hymeniacidon ungodon de Laubenfels, 1932

SPONGE:

Shape: Encrusting to massive
Color: bright yellow yellow-orange cinnamon or purple with yellow-ochre choanosome

HABITAT:

Benthic Region: Marine: Intertidal to Subtidal
Distribution: Central California

Surface:

Contour: long often branched ridges and coarsely rugose with low rounded or irregular processes

Megasclere:

Shape: Style
Length: 130 -- 252 µ
Width: 3.4 -- 10.2 µ

Choanosome:

Architecture: Spicules in confustion
Color: yellow-drab

Ectosome:

Architecture: Densely packed with styles in confusion; not readily detachable
Color: Mahogany brown (6A330E)

Skeleton:

Composition: Silicate
Architecture: Spicules in confustion;sometimes with vertical tracts

Oscula:

Density: Infrequent
Shape: oval
Diameter_long axis: 1]-- 10.2 mm