[A]
Acanthostyles < 200 μm.
Tylotes-Subtylotes: 96-169 μm. |
(de Laubenfels, 1930) |
Sponge:
Thin, encrusting to 1- 2 mm thick. Often takes the form of the substrate on which it is found.
Consistency: moderately firm.
Surface: superficially smooth to somewhat granular; soft, slippery.
Oscula: not evident.
Color: Alive: Ochre-yellow, purple, lavender to pink, buff to brown.
Spicules: Megascleres:
(1) Acanthostyles:
72 -94-103- 157 um.
x 4 -5-6- 7 um.
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(2) Tylotes-Subtylotes:
96-136-154- 169 um.
x 1.0 -2.0-2.5- 3.0 um.
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Skeleton:
Modified hymedesmoid structure. Acanthostyles with heads embedded in thick basal layer of spongin, are perpendicular rising to surface. Thick tracts of Tylotes to Subtylotes extending to surface.
These also often curve and may end up parallel to surface. Often individuals or small bundles of Tylotes-Subtylotes are lying free, most often near surface.
Distribution: California.
Depth: Intertidal to subtidal, 10 m.
Note: Rhaphides reported by de Laubenfels. See page 190b. Was Astylinifer arndti.
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[B]
Acanthostyles > 200 μm.
Subtylotes: 213 - 260 μm.
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(Bakus, 1966) |
Sponge:
Encrusting to 14 mm.
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