[A]
Color: olive-tan, salmon pink or coral.
Primary fibers: 80 - 255 μm - no inclusions.
Cells NOT packed with purple granules. |
| | Aplysilla glacialis
(Merejkowsky, 1878) |
Sponge:
Encrusting to 3 mm thick.
Consistency: Soft, slippery.
Surface: Conulose, conules 1-2 mm high, 2-3 mm apart.
Oscula: round and scattered, 1 mm in diameter. Oscula not evident as distinct from pores.
Color: Alive: Olive-tan, salmon pink or coral.
Spicules: None
Fibers: Primary fibers: 80 - 255 μm with no inclusions and with concentric layers.
Skeleton:
Ectosome: Fleshy, slimy dermis, 8 μm thick.
Choanosome: Dense mass of flagellated chambers permeated by canals and dendritic fibers. Fibers arise from a basal plate, are dendritic but do not anastomose.
Distribution: Central California.
Depth: Intertidal.
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[B]
Color deep purple.
Primary fibers: 80 -180 μm - packed with foreign spicules.
Cells packed with purple granules.
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| | Aplysilla polyraphus
(de Laubenfels, 1930) |
Sponge:
Encrusting to 5 mm thick.
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