Species Overview

Suberites latus (Lambe, 1892) [of Bakus & Green, 1987].

SPONGE:

Shape: Semispherical; broadly lobate
Color_Alive: Yellow-tan to yellow-orange
Color_Preserved: Yellowish-brown in ethanol
Consistency: spongy; compressible but firm.

HABITAT:

Benthic Region: Marine: Deep water
Depth: --183 m
Distribution: Southern to Northern California
Associations: Often with a hermit crab or mollusk shell.

Surface:

Texture: hispid

Skeleton:

Composition: Silicate
Architecture: Confused with only a few tracts to the surface

Ectosome:

Dermal membrane: present

Choanosome:

Architecture: Confused with only a few tracts to the surface

Megasclere:

Shape: Tylostyles
Length: 90 -(197|321)- 680 µ
Width: 2.5 -(5.1|8.6)- 12 µ

Microsclere:

Shape: Centrotylote Strongyle
Length: 12.3 -(21.2|28.5)- 56 µ
Width: 1.2 -(2.6|3.1)- 4.0 µ
Abundance: May be rare