Species Overview

Penares saccharis (de Laubenfels, 1930).

SPONGE:

Shape: Encrusting to Massive; rounded
Color_Alive: White; dark lavender-brown.
Consistency: Cartilaginous

HABITAT:

BenthicRegion: Marine: Intertidal to Subtidal
Distribution: Southern California to Northern California

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Skeleton:

Composition: Silicate
Architecture: Vague tracts of Oxeas and some microscleres.

Surface:

Texture: superficially smooth

Oscula:

Shape: Round
Diameter: -200- µ
Rims: Depressed rounded edges

Ectosome:

Architecture: Densely felted mass; 100 µm thick of Microxeas and clads of Dichotriaenes.

Choanosome:

Architecture: Vague tracts of Oxeas and some microscleres.

Megasclere:

Shape: Oxeas (some styles)
Length: 400-- 890 µ
Width: 10-25]- 890 µ

Megasclere:

Shape: Dichotriaenes
Length-Clads: 120--210 µ
Width: 10--30 µ
Length_Rhabds: 320--435 µ
Width_Rhabds: 20--30 µ

Microsclere:

Shape: Microxeas
Length: 35--180 µ
Width: 4--10 µ
Note: Often bent once or twice