Morphological description (show/hide)
massive, lobate, subspherical. | orange exterior, beige interior in life, fles | not obvious, sessile openings. | very firm, barely compressible, can not tear, rubbery. | porous, opaque surface, forming deep cavities. | membranous, occasional scattering of verticillate acanthostyles, collagen moderately light, though denser than in choanosome, homogeneous. | well-developed spongin fibres form fairly regular reticulated skeleton, fibres echinated by verticillate acanthostyles, mesohyl collagen light, homogeneous. | acanthostrongyles: verticillate, ~150 um, acanthostyles: 2 classes, 1, microspined, ~210 um, 2, verticillate, ~190 um. | nil. |
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