-
megascleres but are
notably smaller.
Dermal tylostyles are
rounded at the base and
pointed at the
outer end.
Longer tylostyles tapering gradually towards the end...
- make up the
skeleton of this species: Long, thin and
slightly curved tylostyles (megascleres with a
point at one end and a **** at the other). Characteristic...
- have one
pointed end; they are
termed styles if the
other end is blunt,
tylostyles if
their blunt end
forms a ****; and
acanthostyles if they are covered...
- ****ules are
present in this species:
Three distinct size
classes of
tylostyles (****ule with a
point at one end and a **** at the other). Centrotylostongyles/oxeas...
-
differentiation into
ectosomal and
internal skeletons. Its ****ules
consist of
tylostyles ranging from 280 to 430μm,
densely and
irregularly arranged,
often with...
-
throughout the
sponge tissues. They
consist entirely of
megascleres known as "
tylostyles",
which are a kind of ****ule with a
single shaft, with a
point on one...
-
coats the
outermost layer of the
basal skeleton. The
megascleres include tylostyles (pointed at one end and a **** at the other). They are
common and point...
- For example,
while encrusting specimens have fine
filaments of
roughly tylostyle ****ules,
bushy specimens have a
central mesh of ****ules
which are surrounded...
- oscula. The ****ules that
stiffen the
sponge and form the
skeleton are
tylostyles, rods with one end
pointed and the
other ****bed, and
there are also microscleres...
-
killing the
coral polyps over
which it grows. The
sponge ****ules are all
tylostyles, and are pin-shaped with
lobed heads. The
sponge tissue contains large...
