| Submitted |
| Cliona dissimilis |
| 2015-02-01 |
| Kaneohe Bay, Oahu Island, Hawaii, U.S.A. (21° 25' 48'' N, 157° 47' 24'' W) |
| Laura Nunez Pons |
| HIMB_UPDM-SPO42 |
| Universita Politecnica delle Marche, Italia & |
| EtOH |
| Laura Nunez Pons |
| 1st of January 1970 |
| Barbara Calcinai |
Morphological description (show/hide)
| Boring | | Red-orange alive to dark orange | | Brownish ochraceous | | Inhalant and exhalant papillae up to 2 mm high and about 2-4 mm in diameter are visible | | Inside the substrate tylostyles are irregularly arranged | | In the external layer covering the coral, tylostyles are perpendicularly arranged to the surface with the heads in contact with the substrate, in the papillae the tylostyles are closely packed | | Tylostyles in general straight or slightly curved, with the vesicle in the tyle and the axial filament visible, they measure 250-(291.3?19.6)-320 x 7.5-(8.7?1.4)-12.5 um, and have oval heads that are trilobated. Tips are hastate |
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| The sponge was covered with a thin layer of tissue of ~2 mm. The sponge excavates the substrate without making clear erosion chambers, and creates irregular erosion channels up to 3 mm large. |
