Species Overview

Hymedesmia (?Stylopus) sp. D Green & Bakus, 1994.

SPONGE:

Shape: Encrusting
Color_Alive: Orange-yellow.
Consistency: elastic; fragile

HABITAT:

Benthic Region: Marine: Deep Water
Depth: 75 -- 90 m
Distribution: Southern California; Santa Maria Basin.

Surface:

Texture: superficially smooth
Contour: depressions and openings 0.15 to 0.4 mm.

Ectosome:

Architecture: bundles of Strongyles.

Choanosome:

Architecture: vertically-arranged Acanthotylostyles; heads buried in spongin.

Skeleton:

Composition: Silicate
Architecture: Vertically-arranged Acanthotylostyles; heads buried in spongin.

Megasclere:

Shape: Acanthosubtylostyles
Length: 83 -96- 164 µ
Width: 5 -7- 10 µ

Megasclere:

Shape: Acanthosubtylostyles
Length: 220 -260- 280 µ
Width: 10 -12- 13 µ

Megasclere:

Shape: Strongyles
Length: 208 -241- 265 µ
Width: -5- µ