Species Overview

Saccocalyx pedunculatus

DEFINING CHARACTERS:

Spirodiscohexasters and Drepanocomes present.

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SPONGE:

Shape: Stipitate: Cup with lateral diverticula on long hollow stalk.
Color_Alive?: White

HABITAT:

Benthic Region: Marine: Deep water
Distribution: Northern California.

Skeleton:

Composition: Silicate (hexactin)
Architecture: Cup with loose spicules; stalk with diactins fused by synapticulae.

Megasclere:

Shape: Diactins
Length: 1.18-2.18-5.06 mm

Megasclere:

Shape: Pinular Hexactins
Length-distal ray: 392 - 496- 595 µ
Length-tangential ray: 116 -203- 297 µ
Length-proximal ray: 106 -373- 604 µ

Megasclere:

Shape: Hexactins
Length-ray: 258 -738- 1341 µ

Microsclere:

Shape: Spirodiscohexasters
Diameter: 118 -147- 176 µ

Microsclere:

Shape: Drepanocomes
Diameter: 142 -265- 329 µ

Microsclere:

Shape: Aspidoplumicomes
Diameter: 50 -65- 76 µ