Species Overview

Tedania (Trachytedania) gurjanovae Koltun, 1958.

SPONGE:

Shape: Encrusting to cushion shaped
Color_Alive: Tan or grey or light brown or green-yellow
Consistency: Fragile

HABITAT:

Benthic Region: Marine
Distribution: Southern California to Northern California

Surface:

Texture: Smooth to lumpy

Ectosome:

Architecture: Thin dermis
Spicules: with Tornotes

Choanosome:

Architecture: with tracts of Styles and bundles of Rhaphides and Onychaetes

Distribution:

Benthic Region: Intertidal to deep water
Distribution: Southern to Northern California

Skeleton:

Composition: Silicate
Architecture: with tracts of Styles and bundles of Rhaphides and Onychaetes

Megasclere:

Shape: Tornotes
Length: 171 -(193|215)- 241 µ
Width: 4 -5- 8 µ

Megasclere:

Shape: Styles
Length: 218 -(265|288)- 345 µ
Width: 8 -13- 14 µ

Microsclere:

Shape: Onychaetes
Length: 51 -(70|72)- 99 µ

Microsclere:

Shape: Onychaetes
Length: 159 -(191|228)- 260 µ