Species Overview

Haliclona (Reniera?) sp. F Green & Bakus, 1994.

SPONGE:

Shape: Tubular
Size_Height_Tube: -11- mm
Size_Width_Tube: -1- mm
Color_Alive: Transparent white
Consistency: Fragile; soft.

HABITAT:

Benthic Region: Marine: Deep water
Depth: 75 -- 90 m
Location: Santa Maria Basin;Southern California.

Surface:

Texture: superficially smooth
Appearance: Fine meshwork of skeleton visible.

Skeleton:

Composition: Silicate
Architecture: Irregular polygonal unispicular reticulation and longitudinal multispicular tracts of at least 10 spicules.

Megasclere:

Shape: Oxeas
Length: 151 -162- 172 µ
Width: 0.5 -- 0.6 µ