Species Overview

Clathria (Clathria) asodes (de Laubenfels, 1930).

SPONGE:

Shape: Encrusting Thin
Size_Thickness: < 1.0 mm
Color_Alive: Rich yellow
Color_Preserved: Drab

HABITAT:

Benthic Region: Marine: Intertidal to Subtidal
Depth: -34- m
Distribution: Southern California and central California

Surface:

Texture: superficially smooth slimy

Oscula:

Shape: punctiform

Ectosome:

Architecture: Vague

Choanosome:

Architecture: Acanthose spicules arranged vertically with heads embedded in basal spongin

Skeleton:

Composition: Silicate
Architecture: Acanthose spicules arranged vertically with heads embedded in basal spongin

Megasclere:

Shape: Acanthostyles: sparsely spined
Length: 135 -- 470 µ
Width: 6.5 -- 14.5 µ

Megasclere:

Shape: Acanthostyles
Length: 92 - -100 µ
Width: 6.0 -- 11.0 µ

Megasclere:

Shape: Style- Subtylostyles
Length: 180 -- 260 µ
Width: 3.0 - 5.0]- 260 µ

Microsclere:

Shape: Isochelae
Length: 3.0 --14 µ