Species Overview

Leucilla nuttingi (Urban, 1902).

SPONGE:

Shape: Vase shaped or tubular
Size_Height: 1 cm diam. narrows distally to 5 cm high. Borne on narrow stalk to 2 cm high
Color_Alive: White to tan

HABITAT:

Benthic Region: Marine: Intertidal; Subtidal;Deep water?
Depth: --700 m
Distribution: Southern to Northern California

Surface:

Texture: Smooth

Oscula:

Distribution: apical

Skeleton:

Composition: Carbonate
Architecture: Leuconoid

Megasclere:

Shape: Coronal oxeas(may be missing)
Length: --1250 µ

Megasclere:

Shape: Oxeas
Length: 50 -- 160 µ

Megasclere:

Shape: Hypodermal Triradiates-Quadriradiates (rays)
Length: 200 -- 900 µ

Megasclere:

Shape: Triradiates (rays)
Length: -230- µ

Megasclere:

Shape: Cloacal Triradiates-Quadriratiates (rays)
Length: 20 -- 150 µ

Microsclere:

Shape: Microxeas
Length: -45- µ