Species Overview

Mycale (Carmia) bellabellensis (Lambe, 1905).

SPONGE:

Shape: Stalked
Size_Height: N(m)
Color_Alive: Drab yellow light-brown
Consistency: Fragile Sponge

HABITAT:

Benthic Region: Marine: Deep water
Depth: --800 m
Distribution: Central California to Northern California

Skeleton:

Composition: Silicate
Architecture: Cavernous with branched coarse spicule bundles cored with Styles. Superimposed on this is a loose irregular reticulation

Surface:

Texture: Rough

Oscula:

Shape: very irregular
Diameter: Very irregular

Ectosome:

Dermal membrane: Thin
Architecture: terminally expanded ascending fibers

Choanosome:

Architecture: cavernous with branched coarse spicule bundles cored with Styles. Superimposed on this is a loose irregular reticulation

Megasclere:

Shape: Styles-hastate with tornote points
Length: 352 - (420|534) - 594 µ
Width: 8 -(11|13)- 15 µ

Microsclere:

Shape: Anisochelae
Length: 15 -(33|46)- 63 µ

Microsclere:

Shape: Anisochelae
Length: 53 -(76|89)- 96 µ

Microsclere:

Shape: Sigmas-rare/absent
Length: 36 -53- 70 µ

Microsclere:

Shape: Toxas-reported rarely