Species Overview

Isodictya quatsinoensis (Lambe, 1892).

SPONGE:

Shape: Lobate flabellate or ramose
Consistency: Firm tough
Color_Alive: Orange

HABITAT:

Benthic Region: Marine: Subtidal to Deep water
Depth: 54 -- 91 m
Distribution: California
Note: Often washed up intertidally

Oscula:

Distribution: arranged in uniserial row

Surface:

Texture: Rough

Skeleton:

Composition: Silicate
Architecture: Bands of fibers with spicules radiate to surface joined by less regular smaller fibers which present an irregular reticulation

Megasclere:

Shape: Styles
Length: 135--200 µ
Width: 14--24 µ

Microsclere:

Shape: Palmate Isochelae
Length: 20--27 µ