Species Overview

Lissodendoryx (Lissodendoryx) sp. 2 [of Lee].

SPONGE:

Shape: Encrusting
Size_thickness: to 11
Color: Recorded as Isabella color (Ridgeway).
Consistency: Firm.

HABITAT:

Benthic Region: Marine: Deep water
Distribution: Southern California: La Jolla Canyon

Surface:

Contour: rugose with numerous interconnecting ridges and deep furrows
Texture: superficially smooth but minutely hispid

Ectosome:

Architecture: Layer of Strongyles parallel to the surface and just at the surface

Choanosome:

Architecture: Thick multispicular primary tracts with paucispicular to multi-spicular connections forming a rugged reticulation

Megasclere:

Shape: Styles
Length: 227 -257- 292 µ

Microsclere:

Shape: Arcuate Isochelae
Length: 20 -29- 37 µ

Skeleton:

Composition: Silicate
Architecture: Thick multispicular primary tracts with paucispicular to multi-spicular connections forming a rugged reticulation

Megasclere:

Shape: Tornotes- Strongyles
Length: 135 -182- 200 µ

Microsclere:

Shape: Sigmas
Length: 43 -55- 65 µ