Species Overview

n. g. n. sp. B Klontz, 1989.

SPONGE:

Shape: Encrusting
Size_Thickness: --8 mm
Color_Alive: Red orange-brown yellow-tan slamon red terra cotta mustard
Color_Preserved: White to light brown orange

HABITAT:

BenthicRegion: Marine: Subtidal
Depth: 5--15 m
Distribution: Southern California to Central California

Skeleton:

Composition: Silicate
Architecture: Thick styles to subtylostyles in ascending echinated tracts joined by cross spicules. Thin styles to subtylostyles at surface and scattered within.

Megasclere:

Shape: Subtylostyles (thin)
Length: 90 --225 µ
Width: 2--8 µ

Megasclere:

Shape: Subtylostyles (thick)
Length: 200 --240 µ
Width: 14--36 µ

Microsclere:

Shape: Toxas
Length: 26--165 µ