Phil Garner, Southern California Marine Life, USA
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Suberites lambei is cushion-shaped to massive and asymmetrical, the sponge has a firm and rubbery-velvety surface.
Slat is strongly contractile, the sponge becomes a solid mass with no visible oscula when hit by the strong tide.
When alive and relaxed, subtidal specimens show a partially transparent pore network on the surface and large, obvious oscula on elevated positions.
Color: Specimens vary from yellow to brownish-yellow live.
Size: 6 cm x 8 cm x 2 cm thick, but may be 0.6 cm to 6 cm thick.
Etymology.
The sponge would be named after Lawrence M. Lambe of the Geological Society of Canada, who described numerous sponges from western Canada and Alaska in the period 1893-1895.
Slat is strongly contractile, the sponge becomes a solid mass with no visible oscula when hit by the strong tide.
When alive and relaxed, subtidal specimens show a partially transparent pore network on the surface and large, obvious oscula on elevated positions.
Color: Specimens vary from yellow to brownish-yellow live.
Size: 6 cm x 8 cm x 2 cm thick, but may be 0.6 cm to 6 cm thick.
Etymology.
The sponge would be named after Lawrence M. Lambe of the Geological Society of Canada, who described numerous sponges from western Canada and Alaska in the period 1893-1895.
