Species Overview

Lissodendoryx (Lissodendoryx) kyma de Laubenfels, 1930 [of Green & Bakus, 1994].

SPONGE:

Shape: Encrusting
Color_Alive: Pale drab; brown-orange

HABITAT:

Benthic Region: Marine: Intertidal; Subtidal; Deep water
Distribution: Southern California to Northern California

Megasclere:

Shape: Styles
Length: 176 -(200|248)- 327 µ
Width: 10 -(13|14)- 16 µ

Megasclere:

Shape: Styles
Length: 362 -(409|481)- 547 µ
Width: 17 -(21|24)- 27 µ

Megasclere:

Shape: Subtylotes- Tylotes
Length: 251 -(307|327)- 370 µ
Width: 5 -7- 9 µ

Skeleton:

Composition: Silicate
Architecture: Dense mesenchyme with ill-defined tracts to surface. These crudely echinated by Styles. The tracts form a loose reticulation.

Ectosome:

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Architecture: Tornotes more or less tangential to the surface.

Choanosome:

Architecture: Dense mesenchyme with ill-defined tracts to surface. These crudely echinated by Styles. The tracts form a loose reticulation.

Microsclere:

Shape: Arcuate Isochelae
Length: 30 -(37|39)- 47 µ

Surface:

Contour: undulating