Species Overview

Geodia mesotriaena Lendenfeld, 1910.

SPONGE:

Shape: Subglobular to massive]Size_Diameter
Color_Preserved: White

HABITAT:

Benthic Region: Marine: Subtidal to Deep water
Distribution: Southern California to Northern California

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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