Species Overview

Antho (Acarnia) karykina de Laubenfels, 1927.

SPONGE:

Shape: Encrusting
Size_Thickness: --4.0 cm
Color_Alive: Scarlet to salmon-red or dull salmon orange
Consistency: Firm; Woody

HABITAT:

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

Surface:

Contour: level
Texture: superficially hispid

Oscula:

Rims: Sometimes with slightly raised collars
Diameter: 1 -- 2 mm

Ectosome:

Architecture: Vague with Tylostyles-Subtylostyles near the surface

Choanosome:

Architecture: Ascending tracts of Styles that penetrate the surface. Tracts interconnected by Tylotes

Skeleton:

Composition: Silicate

Megasclere:

Shape: Thick Styles - Sub-tylostyles
Length: 180 -- 215 µ
Width: 15 -- 17 µ

Megasclere:

Shape: Thin Tylostyles - Subtylostyles
Length: 145 -- 200 µ
Width: 3.3 -- 3.7 µ

Megasclere:

Shape: Tylotes with heads microspined
Length: 175 -- 240 µ
Width: 17 -- 24 µ

Microsclere:

Shape: Palmate Isochelae
Length: 10 -- 20 µ

Microsclere:

Shape: Toxas
Length: 15 -- 100 µ