Species Overview

Mycale (Rhaphidotheca) marshallhalli (Kent, 1870) [of Green & Bakus, 1994 as Mycale (Rhaphidothec

SPONGE:

Shape: Digitate
Color_Alive?: White
Consistency: Firm

HABITAT:

Benthic Region: Marine: Deep water
Depth: 75 --123 m
Distrubution: Southern California

Surface:

Texture: Rough; hispid.

Skeleton:

Composition: Silicate
Architecture: ascending tracts of Subtylostyles which ramify from base to surface.

Ectosome:

Architecture: Exotylote heads protrude from surface.

Choanosome:

Architecture: ascending tracts of Subtylostyles which ramify from base to surface.

Megasclere:

Shape: Exotylotes
Length: 400 -405- 450 µ

Megasclere:

Shape: Subtylostyles
Length: 310 -375- 440 µ

Microsclere:

Shape: Anisochelae]
Length: 26 -26- 31 µ

Microsclere:

Shape: Anisochelae
Length: 91 -95- 104 µ

Microsclere:

Shape: Sigmas
Length: 55 -58- 62 µ

Microsclere:

Shape: Rhaphides(as Trichodragma).
Length: 52 -62- 70 µ