Species Overview

Clathria (Microciona) sp. A-2 Green & Bakus, 1994.

SPONGE:

Shape: Thin encrusting
Size_thickness: less than 1 mm
Color_Alive: Not given
Color_Preserved: White; semi- transparent near the surface
Consistency: Fragile

HABITAT:

Benthic Region: Marine: Deep water
Depth: 96 -- 105 m
Distribution: Southern California: Santa Maria Basin.

Surface:

Texture: Prickly.slightly hispid

Oscula:

Visible: no pores or oscules visible

Choanosome:

Architecture: Acanthostyles with heads embedded in basal spongin. Styles and Acanthostyles and microscleres free in the choanosome.

Megasclere:

Shape: Acanthostyles
Length: 320 -510- 720 µ
Width: 18 -28- 36 µ

Megasclere:

Shape: Styles
Length: 290 - 447- 600 µ
Width: 8 -11- 13 µ

Megasclere:

Shape: Subtylotes
Length: 200 -250- 300 µ
Width: 5 -6- 8 µ

Microsclere:

Shape: Palmate Isochelae
Length: 18 -22- 26 µ

Skeleton:

Composition: Silicate

Ectosome:

Spicules: Subtylotes

Megasclere:

Shape: Acanthostyles
Length: 122 -149- 187 µ
Width: 10 -14- 18 µ