Species Overview

Lissodendoryx (Lissodendoryx) kyma de Laubenfels, 1930.

SPONGE:

Shape: Encrusting
Color_Alive: Pale drab.
Consistency: fragile and friable.

HABITAT:

Benthic Region: Marine: Deep water
Distribution: Central California

Surface:

Contour: superficially wavy with troughs 2 mm deep.

Oscula:

Visible: not evident.

Ectosome:

Architecture: Dermal membrane packed with tangential Subtylotes.

Choanosome:

Architecture: Large Styles in confusion.

Megasclere:

Shape: Smooth Styles]
Length: -350-
Width: - 24-

Megasclere:

Shape: Styles with heads spined
Length: - 340- µ
Width: - 20- µ

Megasclere:

Shape: Subtylotes (these incorrectly described as Tornotes)]
Length: -205- µ
Width: - 5-] (these incorrectly described as Tornotes). µ

Microsclere:

Shape: Arcuate Isochelae
Length: 25 -- 30 µ