Species Overview

Hymedesmia (Hymedesmia) sp. A Hartman, 1975.

SPONGE:

Shape: Encrusting
Size_Thickness: --1.5 mm
Color_Alive: Salmon; salmon-orange; red; burnt sienna; pale terra cotta

HABITAT:

Benthic Region: Marine: Intertidal to Subtidal
Distribution: Central California

Skeleton:

Composition: Silicate
Architecture: Acanthostyles standing erect with heads embedded in basal spongin or forming short tracts to the surface

Megasclere:

Shape: Acanthostyles
Length: 72 -(80|90)- 112 µ
Width: 6.5 --7.0 µ

Megasclere:

Shape: Acanthostyles
Length: 120 -(169|220)- 376 µ
Width: 8.0 --8.5 µ

Megasclere:

Shape: Tornotes- Subtylotes
Length: 121 -(137|158)- 180 µ
Width: -3.5- µ

Microsclere:

Shape: Arcuate Isochelae
Length: 15 -(19|23)- 30 µ