Species Overview

Plocamiancora igzo (de Laubenfels, 1932).

SPONGE:

Shape: Encrusting
Size_Thickness: --1 cm
Color_Alive: Orange-red; carmine

HABITAT:

BenthicRegion: Marine: Intertidal to Subtidal
Distribution: Southern California to Central California

Surface:

Contour: lumpy
Texture: minutely hispid

Oscula:

Visible: not evident

Ectosome:

Architecture: Dermis with microscleres and bouquets of Anisotornotes

Choanosome:

Architecture: Ascending plumose columns of Tylostyles- Subtylostyles and a few Tylotes

Pores:

Diameter: 20--25 µ

Megasclere:

Shape: Tylostyles - Sub-tylostyles
Length: 130 -- 310 µ
Width: 10 -- 17 µ

Megasclere:

Shape: Anisotornotes - Anisosubtylostyles
Length: 115 -- 156 µ
Width: - 4.0 - µ

Megasclere:

Shape: Tylotes with heads coarsely to minutely microspined
Length: 125 - -130 µ
Width: - 9.5- µ

Microsclere:

Shape: Anchorate Isochelae
Length: 13 -- 14 µm µ

Skeleton:

Composition: Silicate
Architecture: Ascending plumose columns of Tylostyles- Subtylostyles and a few Tylotes