Species Overview

n. g. n. sp. A Klontz, 1989.

SPONGE:

Shape: Thinly encrusting
Size_Thickness: 1-2 mm
Color_Alive: Bright Red

HABITAT:

Benthic Region: Intertidal
Distribution: Central California: Farallon Islands

HABITAT:

Benthic Region: Marine
Distribution: Central California - Farallon Is.

Skeleton:

Composition: Silicate]
Architecture: Echinating branching tracts of Acanthostyles. Those at base of tracts have heads embedded in basal layer of spongin. Tracts more or less erect and do not penetrate dermal membrane

Megasclere:

Shape: Acanthostyle
Length: 48-(177|245)-472 µ

Ectosome:

Dermal Membrane: Tornotes lying parallel or perpendicular within membrane

Megasclere:

Shape: Tornotes
Length: 101-(134|154)-176 µ

Microsclere:

Shape: Arcuate Isochelae
Length: 13-(17|20)-24 µ

Choanosome:

Architecture: Echinating branching tracts of Acanthostyles. Those at base of tracts have heads embedded in basal layer of spongin. Tracts more or less erect and do not penetrate dermal membrane