Species Overview
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Stelletta estrella de Laubenfels, 1930.
Synonyms:
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SPONGE:
Shape:
Subspherical to massive
Size_Thickness:
to 5 cm
Color_Alive:
HABITAT:
Benthic Region:
Marine: Intertidal; Subtidal; Deep water
Distribution:
Southern California
CHARACTERS
Surface:
Texture:
Superficially hirsute
Oscula:
Visible:
inconspicuous
Diameter:
1]-- mm
Ectosome:
Architecture:
Cortex
Choanosome:
Architecture:
Radiate
Megasclere:
Shape:
Oxeas
Length:
2.60--4.00 mm
Width:
45 - -100 µm
Megasclere:
Shape:
Plagiomonaenes-Plagiodiaenes-Plagiotriaenes
Length-Rhabds:
-4000- µm
Width-Rhabds:
9--78 µm
Length-Chords:
35--200 µm
Microsclere:
Shape:
Oxyspherasters
Diameter:
2.5--12 µm
Microsclere:
Shape:
Tylospherasters
Diameter:
10 -- 11 µm
Skeleton:
Composition:
Silicate
Architecture:
Radiate