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Cinachyrella anatriaenilla |
2001-10-12 |
west side of Nu’utele Island, to the west of (14° 10' 26'' S, 169° 41' 10'' W) |
6m |
P.L. Colin |
CASIZ 301478 and MNRJ 17614 |
San Francisco, California, USA, and Rio de Ja |
EtOH |
Julio C.C. Fernandez, Lori J. Bell and Miche |
Morphological description (show/hide)
spherical to hemispherical, elongate oval to irregularly shaped overall, or conjoined | yellow | beige | Irregularly scattered | compressible, tears relatively easily | smooth, slightly undulating macroscopically, hispid in sections | fully radial | translucent pale yellow and cellular in appearance with no demarcating fibrillar collagen evident | Oxeas I (smooth) (1800–4000 × 16–28 µm), oxeas II (smooth) (625–1350 × 5–12 µm), protriaenes (rhadome 625–2875 × 2.5–6, clads 25–70 × 2–5 µm), anatriaenes (rhadome 700–1300 × 2.5–4 µm, clads 18–38 µm × 2–4µm) | microacathoxeas (112–208 × 1.5–2.5 µm), sigmaspires (10–22 × 1 µm) |
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Specimen sequenced: paratype (Redmond et al. 2013), as Acanthotetilla cf. seychellensis. |
Reference (show/hide)
Fernandez J.C.C., Kelly M. and Bell L.J. (2017) Cinachyrella anatriaenilla sp. nov., a new tetillid sponge with microacanthoxeas from American Samoa in the South Pacific. Zootaxa, 4258(1), 81-90. |
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