Species Overview

Poecillastra tenuilaminaris Sollas, 1886.

SPONGE:

Shape: Lamellar
Color_Alive: Drab
Consistency: Firm
Shape: One side with pores 0.2 mm

HABITAT:

BenthicRegion: Marine: Deep water
Distribution: Central California

Skeleton:

Composition: Silicate
Architecture: Confused with calthrops and oxeas

Surface:

Oscula:

Distribution: scattered on one side

Choanosome:

Architecture: Confused with calthrops and oxeas

Ectosome:

Architecture: Fragile dermal membrane with abundant asters

Megasclere:

Shape: Calthrops
Length: 260 - 433-700 µ
Width: 21 -36- 62 µ

Megasclere:

Shape: Oxeas
Length: 1.55-2.05-2.53 mm
Width: 8 -16- 26 µ

Megasclere:

Shape: Oxeas
Length: 530 -705- 1100 µ
Length: 13 -20- 31 µ

Megasclere:

Shape: Oxeas
Length: 1.48-2.21-2.75 mm
Width: 29 -47- 78 µ

Megasclere:

Shape: Styles
Length: 675 -1796- 2500 µ
Width: 39 -53- 72 µ

Microsclere:

Shape: Asters
Length: 10 -23- 34 µ

Microsclere:

Shape: Pleisiasters-Metasters
Length: --22 µ

Microsclere:

Shape: Microxeas
Length: 86 -129- 151 µ