Species Overview

Stelletta clarella de Laubenfels, 1930.

SPONGE:

Shape: Encrusting to massive
Size_Thickness: 4 cm
Color_Alive: White or grey to dark brown
Consistency: spongy to cartilaginous

HABITAT:

Benthic Region: Marine: Intertidal; Subtidal; Deep water
Distribution: Southern California to Northern California

Surface:

Texture: Superficially hispid

Ectosome:

Architecture: Cartilaginous cortex packed with clads of Dichotriaenes

Choanosome:

Architecture: Radiate

Skeleton:

Composition: Silicate
Architecture: Radiate

Megasclere:

Shape: Oxeas
Length: -1400- µ
Width: -15- µ

Megasclere:

Shape: Oxeas
Length: -3500- µ
Width: -50- µ

Megasclere:

Shape: Anatriaenes

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