| Reference |
| Geodia barretti |
| 2009-07-09 |
| Flemish Cap (48° 58' 28'' N, 45° 16' 23'' W) |
| 1574m |
| NEREIDA 0609 campaign |
| UPSZMC 78268 |
| Uppsala Museum, Sweden |
| Ethanol 96% |
| Paco Cardenas |
Morphological description (show/hide)
| massive subspherical | | whitish | | whitish | | uniporal in narrow preoscule | | fairly hispid | | no ornamentations | | Radial just under the cortex, otherwise confused. | | Cortex is 0.45 mm. Ectocortex of strongylasters. Endocortex of sterrasters. | | (N=30 unless otherwise stated). (a) oxeas I, straight or bent, length: 1825-3798.2-4440 µm (N=20); width: 22-51.4-65 µm (N=20). (b) oxeas II, straight, sometimes slightly centrotylote, length: 205-261-410 µm; width: 4-10.5-17.5 µm. (c) dichotriaenes, rhabdome length: 1850-2562.5-3000 µm (N=20); width: 90-114-130 µm (N=20); orthotriaene protoclade length: 150-193.4-250 µm (N=26); deuteroclade length:130-260.4-400 µm (N=26). | | (N=30 unless otherwise stated). (d) sterrasters, spherical, length: 100-112.2-125 µm. (e) strongylasters, 4-6.4-9 µm in diameter. (f) oxyasters, rough actines, diameter: 12.5-24.9-42.5 µm. |
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| Half of the specimen is stored in the Uppsala Museum. The other half is stored in the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada). |
Reference (show/hide)
| Cárdenas, P., Rapp, H.T., Klitgaard, A.B., Best, M., Thollesson, M. & Tendal, O.S. (2013) Taxonomy, biogeography and DNA barcodes of Geodia species (Porifera, Demospongiae, Tetractinellida) in the Atlantic boreo-arctic region. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12056. |
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