Species Overview

Xestospongia sp. (Hartman, 1975) .

SPONGE:

Shape: Encrusting
Size_thickness: to 15 mm
Color_ Alive: Olive-beige; grey-brown; deep chrome-yellow

HABITAT:

Benthic Region: Marine: Intertidal to subtidal
Distribution: Central California

Skeleton:

Composition: Silicate
Architecture: Paucispicular tracts with horizontal cross-spicules

Oscula:

Diameter: 2--3 mm
Rims: sometimes on low mounds

Megasclere:

Shape: Oxeas
Length: 88 -120- 134 µ
Width: 3.4 - -9.5 µ

Microsclere:

Shape: Toxas
Length: 35 -- 96 µ