Species Overview

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Geodia mesotriaena Lendenfeld, 1910.

Synonyms:

SPONGE:
Shape: Subglobular to massive]Size_Diameter
Color_Preserved: White
HABITAT:
Benthic Region: Marine: Subtidal to Deep water
Distribution: Southern California to Northern California

CHARACTERS

Pores:
Note: Sieves present
Surface:
Texture: covered by dense spicular plush
Choanosome:
Architecture: Radiate
Ectosome:
Architecture: Cortex of Sterraster armor. Plagiotriaenes or -diaenes with clads in or just below cortex
Megasclere:
Shape: Oxeas (rarely Styles or Strongyles)
Width: 20 -- 112 µ
Megasclere:
Shape: Plagiotriaenes or Plagiodiaenes)
Length: -9000- µ
Width: 20 -- 112 µ
Megasclere:
Shape: Anatriaenes
Length-Rhabds: 5--10) mm
Diameter-Rhabds: 2--45 µ
Megasclere:
Shape: Mesoprotriaenes
Length-Rhabds: 11--48 µ
Megasclere:
Shape: Dermal Oxeas or Styles
Length: -200- µ
Width: 2--13 µ
Microsclere:
Shape: Sterrasters
Diameter: 65--118 µ
Diameter: 42--83 µ
Microsclere:
Shape: Strongylospherasters
Diameter: 4 -- 15 µ
Microsclere:
Shape: Oxyspherasters
Diameter: 6--24 µ
Microsclere:
Shape: Oxyeuasters-strongylote to oxeote
Diameter: 9--35 µ
Skeleton:
Composition: Silicate
Architecture: Radiate
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