Species Overview

Suberites suberea (Johnson) latus Lambe, 1893.

SPONGE:

Shape: Massive;semihemispherical
Color_Alive: White or grey or vermilion with bright orange most common
Color_ Preserved: Pale drab
Consistency: firm

HABITAT:

Benthic Region: Marine: Intertidal to Subtidal
Distribution: Southern California and Central California

Surface:

Texture: superficially smooth.

Oscula:

Visible: Pores and oscules not evident or oscules few
Diameter: 2 -- 4 mm

Ectosome:

Architecture: smaller spicules packed with points outward.

Choanosome:

Architecture: fleshy with spicules in confusion.

Skeleton:

Composition: Silicate
Architecture: fleshy with spicules in confusion.

Megasclere:

Shape: Tylostyles
Length: 90 -- 150 µ

Megasclere:

Shape: Tylostyles
Length: 250 -- 590 µ
Width: 5.0 -- 12 µ

Megasclere:

Shape: Tylostrongyles (blunt-ended Tylostyles)
Length: 135 -- 350 µ

Microsclere:

Shape: Microstrongyles
Length: 20 -- 50 µ