Species Overview

Hymenanchora sp. A Green & Bakus, 1994.

SPONGE:

Shape: Encrusting
Size_thickness: to 1 mm
Color_Alive?: Tan-grey
Consistency: Slightly spongy

HABITAT:

Benthic Region: Marine: Deep water
Depth: 92 -- 100 m
Distribution: Southern California

Surface:

Texture: smooth
Contour: with volcano-like mounds

Oscula:

Diameter: 0.2 --1.0 mm

Ectosome:

Architecture: Detachable dermis with tightly-packed oxeote diactins and Isochelae.

Choanosome:

Architecture: Acanthostyles with heads near base and tips pointed to surface; bundles of Strongyles.

Skeleton:

Composition: Silicate]
Architecture: Acanthostyles with heads near base and tips pointed to surface; bundles of Strongyles.

Megasclere:

Shape: Acanthotylostyles
Length: 350 -418- 590 µ
Width: -13 - µ

Megasclere:

Shape: Strongyles
Length: 300 -423- 480 µ
Width: 6 -8- 10 µ

Megasclere:

Shape: Oxeas
Length: 270 -332- 370 µ
Width: 4 -7- 8 µ

Microsclere:

Shape: Anchorate Isochelae
Length: 49 -58- 65 µ