Species Overview

Adocia (Halichoclona) gellindra (de Laubenfels, 1932).

SPONGE:

Shape: Encrusting
Size_Thickness: 2--4 mm
Color_Live: Pale lavender
Color_Pres: Cream
Consistency: Fragile

HABITAT:

Benthic Region: Marine: Intertidal
Distribution: Central California

Surface:

Texture: Superficially Smooth

Oscula:

Density: few and irregular in shape
Diameter: -1- mm
Rims: often with raised collars to 1 mm high

Ectosome:

Architecture: Tangential skeleton

Choanosome:

Architecture: Dense confused subisotropic reticulation of oxeas with apices of spicules united by spongin

Megasclere:

Shape: Oxeas
Length: 105 -112- 122 µ
Width: 3.0 -6.2- 6.9 µ

Skeleton:

Composition: Silicate
Architecture: Dense confused subisotropic reticulation of oxeas with apices of spicules united by spongin