| Submitted |
| Higginsia cf. petrosioides |
| 1989-01-28 |
| Smith Bay, west of Cape DEstaing, Kangaroo Is (35° 34' 60'' S, 137° 25' 60'' E) |
| 17m |
| NCI, Australian Institute of Marine Science |
| G300611 |
| Queensland Museum |
| EtOH |
| JNA Hooper |
Morphological description (show/hide)
| Massive, erect, lobate. | | Bright orange alive. | | Sculptured conulose surface cf. Myrmekioderma | | Plumose skeleton on long straight or sinuous oxeas with stepped points. Mesohyl spongin moderately heavy. Raphides may be present forming asterose structures in situ. | | Crust of acanthoxeas. | | Oxeas, Acanthoxeas. | | nil. |
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Reference (show/hide)
| Erpenbeck D, Hall K, Alvarez B, Büttner G, Sacher K, Schätzle S, Schuster A, Vargas S, Hooper JNA, Wörheide G (in press) The phylogeny of halichondrid demosponges: past and present re-visited with DNA-barcoding data. The phylogeny of halichondrid demosponges: past and present re-visited with DNA-barcoding data. Organisms Diversity & Evolution. |
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