Species Overview

Dercitus syrmatitus de Laubenfels, 1930.

SPONGE:

Shape: Amorphous
Color_Alive: Drab
Color_Preserved: Drab

HABITAT:

Benthic Region: Marine: Intertidal
Distribution: Southern California

Skeleton:

Composition: Silicate
Architecture: Not clearly described

Surface:

Texture: superficially smooth

Oscula:

Visibility: Not Evident

Ectosome:

Note: Not described

Choanosome:

Architecture: Not clearly described
Note: Sand grains with patches of spicules

Pores:

Visibility: not evident

Megasclere:

Shape: Calthrops
Length-rays: 25 -65- 80 µ
Width: 3 -8- 10 µ

Microsclere:

Shape: Sanidasters-some very irregularly spined
Length: 8 -- 12 µ