Species Overview

Lissodendoryx sp. 6 [of Lee].

SPONGE:

Shape: Thick encrusting
Size_thickness: to 1.5 cm
Color_Alive: Dull orange to pale yellow or flesh ochre (Ridgway); pale salmon
Consistency: Moderately firm

HABITAT:

Benthic Region: Marine: Subtidal
Depth: --34 m
Distribution: Southern California

Surface:

Texture: smooth
Contour: verrucose with some ridges and folds

Oscula:

Shape: round
Rims: flush or in crevices.

Skeleton:

Composition: Silicate
Architecture: Plumose to confused with numerous multispicular parallel tracts rising to the surface.

Ectosome:

Architecture: Packed with parallel Tornotes and large numbers of Isochelae; The surface penetrated by tips of Acanthostyles.

Choanosome:

Architecture: Plumose to confused with numerous multispicular parallel tracts rising to the surface.

Megasclere:

Shape: Acanthostyles
Length: 115 -(161|164) - 182 µ

Megasclere:

Shape: Acanthostyles
Length: 218 -(272|297)- 309 µ

Megasclere:

Shape: Tornotes
Length: 164 -(232|249)- 291 µ

Microsclere:

Shape: Arcuate Isochelae
Length: 15 -(19|20)- 22 µ