Species Overview

Antho (Acarnia) lambei (Burton, 1935).

SPONGE:

Shape: Thinly encrusting
Size_Thickness: --1 mm
Color_Alive: Orange

HABITAT:

BenthicRegion: Marine: Intertidal to subtidal
Distribution: Central California to Northern California

Skeleton:

Composition: Silicate
Architecture: Regular reticulation of Tylotes supporting a dermal arrangement of Styles and Tylostyles pointing outward.

Choanosome:

Architecture: Regular reticulation of Tylotes supporting a dermal arrangement of Styles and Tylostyles pointing outward.

Megasclere:

Shape: Styles - Subtylostyles with microspined heads
Length: 168 -- 600 µ
Width: 8 --24 µ

Megasclere:

Shape: Subtylostyles - Tylostyles
Length: 94 -- 270 µ
Width: 3 -- 6 µ

Megasclere:

Shape: Tylostyles
Length: 98 -- 196 µ
Width: 6 -- 14 µ

Megasclere:

Shape: Tylotes with microspined heads
Length: 66 -- 137 µ
Width: 5 -- 12 µ

Microsclere:

Shape: Palmate Isochelae
Length: 10 --16 µ

Microsclere:

Shape: Toxas- may be absent
Length: 31 -- 63 µ