Morphological description (show/hide)
| branching | | white | | white | | (a) tylotes with elongated ends, usually with one slight bent, small swellings or spines can appear on the shaft, length: 312–391.3–467 µm, width: 6–7.9–10 µm; (b) ectodermal tylotes, straight, with flat spiny ends, 150–180.1–212 µm, width in the middle: 5–5.3–7 µm. | | (c) palmate anisochelae, 15–17.6–20 µm long, width: 5–5.7–7.5 µm long. |
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Reference (show/hide)
| Rubin-Blum M., Antony C.P., Borowski C., Sayavedra L., Pape T., Sahling H., Bohrmann G., Kleiner M., Redmond M.C., Valentine D.L. and Dubilier N. (2017) Short-chain alkanes fuel mussel and sponge Cycloclasticus symbionts from deep-sea gas and oil seeps. Nature Microbiology, 2, 17093. |
| Rubin-Blum M., Antony C.P., Sayavedra L., Martínez-Pérez C., Birgel D., Peckmann J., Wu Y.-C., Cardenas P., MacDonald I., Marcon Y., Sahling H., Hentschel U. and Dubilier N. (2019) Fueled by methane: deep-sea sponges from asphalt seeps gain their nutrition from methane-oxidizing symbionts. The ISME Journal. |
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