Species Overview

Scypha coactum (Urban, 1905).

SPONGE:

Shape: Flask or Vase
Size_diameter: -5- mm
Size_height: -6- mm

HABITAT:

BenthicRegion: Marine: Intertidal
Distribution: Central California- Monterey Bay

Surface:

Appearance: reticulate
Texture: hispid

Oscula:

Rims: Erect oscular crown

Skeleton:

Composition: Carbonate
Architecture: Syconoid

Megasclere:

Shape: Oxeas (coronal)
Length: -500- µm
Width: 3--10 µm

Megasclere:

Shape: Oxeas
Length: -1000- µm
Width: -35- µm

Microsclere:

Shape: Microxeas
Length: -40- µm
Width: -2- µm

Microsclere:

Shape: Triradiates-Quadriradiates mostly saggital (rays)
Length: -90- µm
Width: -10- µm