| Submitted |
| Neofibularia hartmani |
| 2007-05-07 |
| "Great Barriere Reef" Vanua Levu, Fiji (16° 18' 50'' S, 178° 54' 36'' E) |
| 8-50m |
| Menou, J L and Butscher, J |
| G324632 |
| Queensland Museum, Brisbane |
| Ethanol |
| Sutcliffe, Patricia |
| 15th of April 2011 |
| Mitchell at al. 2011, Zootaxa |
Morphological description (show/hide)
| Thickly lobate, massive, bulbous-encrusting sponge with lobes/bulbs fused to adjacent bulbs. | | Pale yellow-brown or khaki-brown. | | Dark brown in ethanol. | | Large oscules situated on apex of bulbs (2-8mm) diameter. | | Sculpturing, consisting of close-set, interconnected microconules, forming web-like striations on surface. | | reticulate, with differentiated primary (multispicular) and secondary (uni- and paucispicular) spongin fibres | | Membraneous, lightly arenaceous, abundant heavily pigmented spongin without specialised spicule skeleton | | strongyles | | Microxea two sizes. Raphides. Sigmas incompletely divided into two sizes, both with c- and s-shaped examples. |
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Reference (show/hide)
| Mitchell, K. D., Hall, K. A., & Hooper, J. N. A. (2011). A new species of Sigmaxinella Dendy, 1897 (Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida, Desmacellidae) from the Tasman Sea. Zootaxa, 2901, 19–34. |
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