| Reference |
| Astrosclera willeyana |
| 2000-03-18 |
| inside hard line, Pompey Group, GBR (21° 22' 25'' S, 151° 14' 32'' E) |
| 4m |
| G. Wörheide |
| QMG316066 |
| Queensland Musem |
| Ethanol |
| G. Wörheide |
| 19th of March 2000 |
| G. Wörheide |
Morphological description (show/hide)
| like a mushroom, often with small stalk | | upper side: orange; lower part: white | | same | | small, on mamellons | | hard | | astrorhizae | | only scattered megascleres | | only scattered megascleres | | acanthostyles, variable | | none |
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has secondary aragonitic 'hypercalcified' coralline skeleton which is built by small spherulites. spicule size and geometry variable, can be absent, depending on geographic location.
PICTURES NOT FROM ACTUAL SPECIMEN, BUT TYPICAL FOR SPECIES. |
Reference (show/hide)
| Wörheide, G. (2006): Low variation in partial cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) mitochondrial sequences in the coralline demosponge Astrosclera willeyana across the Indo-Pacific. Marine Biology 148: 907–912 |
| Wörheide G (1998) The reef cave dwelling ultraconservative coralline demosponge Astrosclera willeyana Lister 1900 from the Indo-Pacific. Micromorphology, ultrastructure, biocalcification, isotope record, taxonomy, biogeography, phylogeny. Facies 38:1–88 |
| Lister JJ (1900) Astrosclera willeyana, the type of a new family of sponges. Zool Results 4:461–482 |
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