| Submitted |
| Iotrochota baculifera |
| 1995-12-12 |
| Big Shark Lake, Ngebedangel, SW. Palau (7° 15' 05'' N, 134° 19' 05'' E) |
| 3m |
| Hooper, J.N.A. Qld Museum |
| G306386 |
| Queensland Museum |
| EtOH |
| S List-Armitage |
Morphological description (show/hide)
| thickly encrusting to erect lobate, irregularly massive, bulbous. | | black or very dark purple in life. | | Irregularly scattered on bulbs. | | Slimy, produces dark crimson mucus. | | Irregular, slimy, bulbous. | | Irregularly reticulate multispicular tracts of styles, very heavy collagen, scattered birotules. | | Collagenous, membranous, with scattered strongyles. | | Ect. strongyles (smooth) (220-28 x 5-7 um), choan. styles (pointed, rounded or stepped) (195-200 x 9-11 um). | | Birotules (14-16 um). |
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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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