| Submitted |
| Axinella aruensis |
| 1996-12-15 |
| 12 mile sandbank, Kupiano, SE. Papuan Lagoon (10° 11' 03'' S, 148° 10' 08'' E) |
| 20m |
| Hooper, J.N.A. Qld Museum |
| G312935 |
| Queensland Museum Brisbane |
| EtOH |
| John Hooper |
| 1st of January 1970 |
| Belinda Alvarez |
Morphological description (show/hide)
| Erect , branching, bifurcate, cylindrical or slightly flattened branches, rounded or spatulate tips, on short stalk. | | Highly variable orange, yellow, reddish or br | | Not seen. | | Flexible, firm. | | Prominent conules, sharply pointed, core-set. | | Slightly compressed axis, with a criss-cross reticulation of spicules occupying nost of branch diam., no fibres, light collagen in mesohyl. plumose sudectosomal (protruding) spicules embedded in periphery of exial skeleton. | | Hispid from protruding oxeas, in plumose array. | | Oxeas with microspined tips, sharply pointed oxeas, thin oxeas, rare styles , anisoxeas (140-220 x 2 - 5um, 200-360 x 9 - 16um) | | nil |
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Reference (show/hide)
| Erpenbeck D, Hall K, Alvarez B, Büttner G, Sacher K, Schätzle S, Schuster A, Vargas S, Hooper JNA, Wörheide G (in press) The phylogeny of halichondrid demosponges: past and present re-visited with DNA-barcoding data. The phylogeny of halichondrid demosponges: past and present re-visited with DNA-barcoding data. Organisms Diversity & Evolution. |
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