Species Overview

Clathria (Microciona) spongigartina de Laubenfels, 1930.

SPONGE:

Shape: Encrusting
Size_Thickness: --3 cm
Color_Alive: Brick Red to deep brown

HABITAT:

Benthic Region: Marine: Intertidal to Subtidal
Distribution: Southern California to Northern California

Ectosome:

Architecture: Acanthostyles forming branched vertical tracts with points up. Short Acanthostyles with heads embedded in basal spongin and echinating tracts

Megasclere:

Shape: Acanthostyle
Length: 73 -(101|121) -145 µ
Width: 7.0--8.5 µ

Megasclere:

Shape: Acanthostyle
Length: 164 -(312|370)- 497 µ
Width: 11.0--12.5 µ

Megasclere:

Shape: Subtylostyles to Tylostyles-Heads smooth or with a few tiny spines.
Length: 152 -(192|221)- 390 µ
Width: 4.0--4.5

Microsclere:

Shape: Arcuate isochelae
Length: 15 -(22|27)- 32 µ

Microsclere:

Shape: Arcuate isochelae
Length: 30 -(40|50)- 59 µ

Skeleton:

Composition: Silicate
Architecture: Acanthostyles forming branched vertical tracts with points up. Short Acanthostyles with heads embedded in basal spongin and echinating tracts