Species Overview

Endectyon (Hemectyon) hyle (de Laubenfels, 1930).

SPONGE:

Shape: Frondose; Stalked
Size_Height: --28 mm
Color_Preserved: Pale drab
Color_ Alive: Brick red
Consistency: Spongy to cartilaginous

HABITAT:

Benthic Region: Marine: Subtidal to Deep water
Depth: 7.6 -- 130.5 m
Distribution: Southern California to Northern California

Oscula:

Visible: not evident

Megasclere:

Shape: Style
Length: 430 - -550 µm
Width: 15 - -20 µm

Megasclere:

Shape: Styles
Length: > 800]-- µm
Width: -10 - µm

Skeleton:

Composition: Silicate
Architecture: divided into axial and peripheral regions. Axial with smooth styles in confusion or trace of a reticulation.

Surface:

Texture: superficially smooth; finely hispid; prickly

Pores:

Visible: not evident

Ectosome:

Dermal membrane: 75 µm thick with scattered dark cells and foreign bodies

Choanosome:

Architecture: divided into axial and peripheral regions. Axial with smooth styles in confusion or trace of a reticulation. Peripheral: dense with Acanthostyles pointing outwards

Megasclere:

Shape: Acanthostyles
Length: 180 -- 320
Width: 12 -- 20 µm

Megasclere:

Shape: Strongyles
Length: 350 -- 370 µm
Width: 16 -- 19 µm

Microsclere:

Shape: Oxeote Rhaphides
Length: 200 -- 330 µm
Width: -2- µm

Microsclere:

Shape: Rhaphides
Length: 200 -- 300 µm