Submitted |
Ircinia ramodigitata |
2001 |
Ribbon Reef /QLD/Australia (15° 28' 48'' S, 145° 50' 51'' E) |
28m |
Hooper, J N A, Cook, S D, Woerheide, G, Schlacher, M and Edson, D |
G 318874 |
Queensland Museum |
EtOH |
Dr Schlacher. Monika |
31st of October 2009 |
Patricia Sutcliffe |
Morphological description (show/hide)
digitate, digits cylindrical, bifurcate, bulbous | black to grey-brown in life | apical on digits, in sieve-plates | compressible, flexible | microconulose, conules minute, gelatinous | fibrous, more-or-less regular reticulation of secondary fibres with primary fibres near surface and extending into conules, primary fibres cored, secondary fibres clear, pithed, fairly regularly spaced, mesohyl moderately light, broken into mesentery-like chambers, choanocyte chambers diploidal | unarmoured, light spicule and detritus layer | 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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