Species Overview

Stelletta estrella de Laubenfels, 1930.

SPONGE:

Shape: Subspherical to massive
Size_Thickness: to 5 cm
Color_Alive:

HABITAT:

Benthic Region: Marine: Intertidal; Subtidal; Deep water
Distribution: Southern California

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