Species Overview

Myxilla (Ectomyxilla) parasitica Lambe, 1893.

SPONGE:

Shape: Encrusting
Size_Thickness: --10 cm
Color_Preserved: Greyish or yellow-brown
Consistency: Firm or compact

HABITAT:

Benthic Habitat: Marine
Distribution: Southern California? and Central California?

Surface:

Contour: uneven
Texture: Rough

Skeleton:

Composition: Silicate
Architecture: Spined Styles- Acanthostyles forming irregular hexagonal meshes with spicules radiating outward towards the angles of the hexagons. Small echinating Acanthostyles in clusters. Tornotes scattered throughout

Oscula:

Diameter: -5- mm

Ectosome:

Architecture: Dermal layer of Tornotes parallel to the surface

Choanosome:

Architecture: Spined Styles- Acanthostyles forming irregular hexagonal meshes with spicules radiating outward towards the angles of the hexagons. Small echinating Acanthostyles in clusters. Tornotes scattered throughout

Megasclere:

Shape: Styles-Acanthostyles
Length: 29 -43- 65 µ

Megasclere:

Shape: Styles-Acanthostyles
Length: 170 -240- 314 µ

Megasclere:

Shape: Tornotes
Length: 149 -165- 209 µ

Microsclere:

Shape: Anchorate Isochelae
Length: 13 -17- 26 µ

Microsclere:

Shape: Anchorate Isochelae
Length: 37 -65- 71 µ

Microsclere:

Shape: Sigmas
Length: 12 -16-18 µ