Species Overview

Sidonops angulata Lendenfels, 1910.

SPONGE:

Shape: Tuberous with digitate processes
Size_Thickness: Not given ]Color_Preserved

HABITAT:

Benthic Region: Marine: Deep water
Distribution: Southern California to Central California

Surface:

Texture: Spicule fur covers surface

Oscula:

Shape: round
Diameter: 0.25-1.00]- mm
Distribution: usually in groups
Rims: often on raised processes
Sieve plates: present

Ectosome:

Thickness: Cortex to 1-2 mm
Spicules: packed with Sterrasters

Megasclere:

Shape: Oxeas: Dermal
Length: -9000- µm
Width: -40- µm

Megasclere:

Shape: Oxeas: Endosomal
Length: -5600- µm
Width: -105- µm

Megasclere:

Shape: Plagiotriaenes-Clads often reduced to diaenes or monaenes
Length-Rhabds: to 4000 ]-- µm
Width: -110 - µm

Megasclere:

Shape: Anatriaenes (often absent)
Length- Rhabds: -9000- µm
Width-Rhabds: -39- µm

Microsclere:

Shape: Sterrasters
Length: 122 -- 170 µm
Width: 87 - -97 µm

Microsclere:

Shape: Spherasters (spined tornote rays)
Diameter: 21 -- 28 µm

Microsclere:

Shape: Euasters oxeote (sometimes spined)
Diameter: - 64- µm

Skeleton:

Composition: Silicate
Architecture: Thick cortex packed with Sterrasters