Species Overview

Dysidea amblia de Laubenfels, 1930 .

SPONGE:

Shape: Digitate to ramose
Size_Height: --30 cm
Color_Preserved: Drab

HABITAT:

Benthic Region: Marine: Intertidal to ?Deep water
Location: Southern California to Central California

Surface:

Contour: conulose:conules less than 1 mm high and 1 mm apart.

Skeleton:

Composition: Spongin
Architecture: Fibrous reticulation with meshes; anastomosing fibers

Oscula:

Visible: inconspicuous
Diameter: -100 - µ

Spongin:

Type: Primary
Diameter: 100 -- 200 µ
Core: Foreign sand grains:often > 100 µm in diameter

Spongin:

Type: Secondary
Diameter: 10 -- 25 µ

Ectosome:

Architecture: Thin dermis:not detachable

Choanosome:

Architecture: Fibrous reticulation with meshes 250 µm in diameter
Choanocyte chambers diameter: 45 -- 55 µ