Species Overview

Clathria (Microciona) sp. Hartman, 1975.

SPONGE:

Shape: Encrusting
Size_Thickness: 4.0 mm
Color_Alive: Bright to deep scarlet

HABITAT:

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

Skeleton:

Architecture: Acanthose megascleres form echinated vertical tracts. Other spicules arranged vertically or at random on surface and associated with tracts

Megasclere:

Shape: Acanthostyles-well spined
Length: 80 - 158 - 182 µ
Width: 5.0 - -13.0 µ

Megasclere:

Shape: Acanthostyles-less spination than smaller size class
Length: 303 - 418 - 509 µ
Width: 15.0--25.0 µ

Megasclere:

Shape: Styles - Tylo- or Subtylostyles-heads microspined
Length: 125 -- 270 µ
Width: 3.5 -- 7.5 µ

Microsclere:

Shape: Palmate Isochelae
Length: 10 - -17 µ