Species Overview

Crellomima sp. A Green & Bakus, 1944

SPONGE:

Shape: Thin encrusting
Size_thickness: less than 0.1 mm
Color_Alive?: White
Consistency: firm; fragile

HABITAT:

Benthic Region: Marine: Subtidal to Deep water
Depth: 90 --130.5 m
Distribution: Central California;Santa Maria Basin.

Ectosome:

Architecture: Tightly packed Acanthostrongyles.

Choanosome:

Architecture: Bundles of Tornotes and Acanthotylostyles oriented vertically with tips extending into the dermis.

Megasclere:

Shape: Acanthostrongyles
Length: 39 -56- 65 µ
Width: 5 -6- 8 µ

Microsclere:

Shape: Anchorate Isochela
Length: 31 -33- 36 µ

Megasclere:

Shape: Acanthostyles
Length: 109 -174- 244 µ
Width: 5 -8- 10 µ

Skeleton:

Composition: Silicate

Surface:

Texture: superficially smooth
Contour: several raised volcano-shaped elevations with single apical oscules scattered on surface. Radial pattern around oscula

Megasclere:

Shape: Tornotes
Length: 187 -221- 273 µ
Width: -5.0- µ

Skeleton:

Composition: Silicate