Shape: Spherical or subspherical Color_Alive: Chrome-yellow to yellow-tan
HABITAT:
Benthic Region: Marine: Low to very low intertidal Distribution: Central California
CHARACTERS
Skeleton:
Composition: Silicate Architecture: Among the radiating spicule bundles are tracts of Anamonaenes; usually provided with a basal mat of long thin spicules - mostly Anamonaenes
Oscula:
Rims: Conspicuous crown of spicules up to 5 mm high
Megasclere:
Shape: Oxeas Length: 1.20-- mm Note: Length to several cm
Megasclere:
Shape: Anamonaenes
Megascleres:
Shape: Protriaenes
Megasclere:
Shape: Prodiaenes
Megasclere:
Shape: Anatriaenes Note: Apparently only in the anchor roots