Submitted |
Ircinia sp. 3173 |
2003 |
Coral Sea/QLD/Australia (14° 18' 08'' S, 144° 48' 48'' E) |
23m |
Hooper, J N A, Cook, S D, Schlacher, M, Richer de Forges, M, Crowther, A and Bartlett, C |
G 320684 |
Queensland Museum |
EtOH |
Dr Schlacher. Monika |
31st of October 2009 |
Patricia Sutcliffe |
Morphological description (show/hide)
thinly encrusting | purple in life orange on deck | light grey to cream | not visible | parchment-like, soft, difficult to tear | highly conulose | fibrous, irregular reticulation of spongin fibres, primary fibres thick, greenish, uncored, collagen filaments moderately abundant, mesohyl green to brown, abundant pigment granules incorporated into collagen | membranous, heavily pigmented, not very distinct from choanosome | nil | nil |
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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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