| Submitted |
| Psammocinia sp. 3176 |
| 1999 |
| Star Reef/Queensland/Australia (26° 22' 12'' S, 153° 7' 30'' E) |
| 29m |
| Cook, S. D., Kennedy, J. A., List-Armitage, S. E., Adams, C. L. and Woerheide, G. |
| G 315808 |
| Queensland Museum |
| EtOH |
| Ms Hendriks. Patricia |
| 31st of October 2009 |
| Patricia Sutcliffe |
Morphological description (show/hide)
| pedunculate | | exterior brown on one side, slightly more beige on the other, interior white (in ethanol). | | small, flush with surface, very regularly distributed, cover one side only | | firm, dense, not very compressible, slightly flexible | | one side smooth to touch, grossly undulating, outer surface undulating, microconulose, beige choanosome visible where cut, thick yellow fibres prominent in choanosome | | very large sand grains throughout, no localisation in fibres | | uniform, thick, sandy | | nil | | nil |
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| very similar to Psammocinia halmiformis (Lendenfeld, 1888), but pedunculate rather than irregularly cup-shaped. Skeleton is also very different to that of P. Halmiformis |
Reference (show/hide)
| Pöppe J, Sutcliffe P, Hooper JNA, Wörheide G, Erpenbeck D (2010) CO I Barcoding Reveals New Clades and Radiation Patterns of Indo-Pacific Sponges of the Family Irciniidae (Demospongiae: Dictyoceratida). PLoS ONE 5(4): e9950. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0009950 |
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