Species Overview

Clathria (Microciona) parthena de Laubenfels, 1930.

SPONGE:

Shape: Encrusting
Size_Thickness: 3-20 mm
Color_Alive: Red to orange-brown
Color_Preserved: Drab

HABITAT:

Benthic Region: Marine: Intertidal; Subtidal; Deep water
Depth: 45 m
Distribution: Southern to Northern California

Surface:

Contour: Superficially tuberculate

Skeleton:

Composition: Silicate
Architecture: Ascending plumose tracts of smooth Styles which penetrate the surface. Subtylostyles mostly grouped at the surface. Acanthostyles sparsely echinating tracts

Megasclere:

Shape: Acanthostyles-fully spined
Length: 85 -- 170 µ
Width: 5.0--8.0 µ

Megasclere:

Shape: Styles
Length: 30 -- 475 µ

Megasclere:

Shape: Subtylostyles-often with microspined heads
Length: 150 -- 300 µ

Microsclere:

Shape: Palmate Isochelae
Length: 20 -- 30 µ

Microsclere:

Shape: Toxas
Length: 14 -- 100 µ