- DEFINING CHARACTERS:
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Shaft of Anchorate Clavule with a few large thorns.
Terminal claws of Anchorate Clavules twisted in a spiral around shaft.
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- SPONGE:
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Shape: A network of branching and anastomosing tubes
Size_diameter_tubes: 10--15 mm
Color: not reported
- HABITAT:
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Benthic Region: Marine: Deep water
Distribution: Southern California.
- Skeleton:
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Composition: Silicate (hexactin)
Architecture: Rigid framework is one layer thick at margins.
- Megasclere:
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Shape: Uncinates
- Mesosclere:
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Shape: Pentactins
- Mesosclere:
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Shape: Pileate Clavules
Length: 200 - -250 ยต
- Mesosclere:
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Shape: Anchorate Clavule
- Microsclere:
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Shape: Oxyhexactins
- Microsclere:
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Shape: Oxyhexasters
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