Species Overview

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Plakina bioxea Green & Bakus, 1994.

Synonyms:

SPONGE:
Shape: Lamellar with smooth scalloped edges
Color_Preserved: White to light tan
Consistency: firm but compressible
HABITAT:
Benthic Region: Marine: Deep water
Distribution: Southern California to ? Central California.

CHARACTERS

Surface:
Texture: Smooth
Contour: scattered raised conules: 0.5 - 0.8 mm high
Ectosome:

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Spicules: densly packed with Calthrops
Choanosome:
Architecture: Basal layer of spicule tracts: these 0.150 - 0.200 mm in diameter (about 50 spicules thick); otherwise unorganized with crowded Calthrops and some Microxeas
Megasclere:
Shape: Oxeas
Length: 68 - (96|166)- 179 µ
Width: 2 -(4|6)- 8 µ
Megasclere:
Shape: Oxeas
Length: 160 -(504|679)- 1160 µ
Width: N(µm)
Megasclere:
Shape: Oxeas
Length: 800 -1125- 1280 µ
Microsclere:
Shape: Calthrops
Length-highly modified: N(µm)
Microsclere:
Shape: Calthrops
Length-(ray): 110 -208- 290 µ
Microsclere:
Shape: Microxea
Note: No length measurements given
Skeleton:
Composition: Silicate
Architecture: Basal layer of spicule tracts: these 0.150 - 0.200 mm in diameter (about 50 spicules thick); otherwise unorganized with crowded Calthrops and some Microxeas