Species Overview

Mycale (Mycale) macginitiei de Laubenfels, 1930.

SPONGE:

Shape: Encrusting Small sponges flat. larger sponges with ridges and protuberences
Color_Alive: Chrome yellow pale golden brown olive brown buff tan
Consistency: Spongy Compressible

HABITAT:

Benthic Region: Marine: Intertidal to Subtidal
Depth: -9- m
Distribution: Southern California to Northern California

Skeleton:

Composition: Silicate
Architecture: Spicule tracts to the surface

Surface:

Texture: Smooth to touch

Ectosome:

Dermal membrane: Thin over a loose reticulation of megascleres

Choanosome:

Architecture: Spicule tracts to the surface

Megasclere:

Shape: Sinuous Subtylostyles
Length: 158 -(247|285)- 321 µ
Width: 4 -(8|9)- 12 µ

Microsclere:

Shape: Sigmas
Length: 14 -(20|33)- 33 µ

Microsclere:

Shape: Sigmas-may be contorted
Length: 43 -(64|75)- 86 µ

Microsclere:

Shape: Anisochelae
Length: 11 -(13|14) - 17 µ

Microsclere:

Length: 17 -(18|25)- 30 µ

Microsclere:

Shape: Anisochelae
Length: 31 -(36|41)- 49 µ

Microsclere:

Shape: Toxa
Length: 5 -(50|69)- 118 µ
Frequency: Rare