Species Overview

Spheciospongia confoederata de Laubenfels, 1930.

SPONGE:

Shape: Massive
Size_thickness: to 14 cm
Color_Alive: Lavender grey orpurple grey or orange yellow
Consistency: Firm compressible

HABITAT:

Benthic Region: Marine: Low intertidal; Subtidal; Deep water
Distribution: Southern California and Central California

Surface:

Texture: superficially smooth

Oscula:

Skeleton:

Composition: Silicate
Architecture: Large canals and woody tracts; to 2 mm diameter- form vague reticulation.

Ectosome:

Spicules: densely packed with spicules -outer ones points outward

Choanosome:

Architecture: Large canals and woody tracts; to 2 mm diameter- form vague reticulation.

Megasclere:

Shape: Tylostyles
Length: 200 -- 320 µ
Width: 6-- 14 µ
Note: Uniform size. Note; spicule range to 120 µm.in any given specimen.