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Styles - Subtylostyles > 600 μm (to 933 μm).
Diacts > 375 μm (to 594 μm). |
| | Lissodendoryx sp. 5
[of Lee] |
Sponge:
Massive, soft.
Consistency: somewhat fragile.
Surface: superficially smooth but somewhat hispid. Slightly raised, flattened lobes delineated by furrows, or rounded lobes with ends free.
Oscula: few, 0.5 - 1.0 mm.
Color: Not given.
Spicules: Megascleres:
(1) Styles - Acanthostyles: the latter mostly with spines on the head but a few spined to midpoint of shaft:
618 -806- 933 um.
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(2) Strongyles - Subtornotes:
385 -521- 594 um.
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Microscleres:
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(1) Arcuate Isochelae:
26 -37- 55 um.
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Skeleton:
Ectosome: In places thick palisades of spreading Strongyles to Subtornotes.
Choanosome: Vague pauci- to multispicular tracts to surface. These often confused and made difficult to see due to multitudes of random spicules.
Distribution: Southern California.
Depth: Deep water.
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Styles < 475 μm.
Diacts < 375 μm.
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