Species Overview

Clathria (Microciona) brepha de Laubenfels, 1930.

SPONGE:

Color_Live: Salmon Red
Color_Pres: Pale Flesh
Shape: Thinly Encrusting
Size_Thickness: --1 mm

HABITAT:

Benthic Region: Marine: Intertidal
Distribution: Central California

Surface:

Texture: Superficially smooth

Skeleton:

Composition: Silicate
Architecture: Styles in tracts to surface

Ectosome:

Architecture: Styles in tracts to surface
Architecture: Tracts end in Tufts

Skeleton:

Architecture: Styles in tracts to surface

Megasclere:

Shape: Acanthosubtylostyle
Length: 95 - -155 µ
Width: 8.0--12.5 µ

Megasclere:

Shape: Acanthosubtylostyle
Length: 250 - -470 µ
Width: 11.0--19.5 µ

Megasclere:

Shape: Styles to Subtylostyles may have microspined heads
Length: 165 -- 230 µ
Width: 2.5--4.0 µ

Microsclere:

Shape: Arcuate Isochelae
Length: 17 - -25 µ