Species Overview

Suberites sp. Green & Bakus, 1994.

SPONGE:

Shape: Thin encrusting
Size_thickness: to 1 mm
Color_Preserved: Tan
Consistency: firm but compressible

HABITAT:

Benthic Region: Marine: Deep water
Depth: 64.5 --123 m
Distribution: Santa Maria Basin- Southern California

Surface:

Texture: slightly rough; slightly hispid

Ectosome:

Architecture: difficult to distinguish from choanosome
Spicules: Densely packed Tylostyles in confusion but some with points up

Choanosome:

Architecture: Tylostyles in confusion

Skeleton:

Composition: Silicate]
Architecture: Tylostyles in confusion

Megasclere:

Shape: Tylostyle
Length: 91 -169- 210 µ
Width: 3.0 -4.0- 5.0 µ

Megasclere:

Shape: Tylostyle
Length: 310 -435- 590 µ
Width: 7.0 -9.0- 13 µ