| Submitted |
| Echinodictyum mesenterinum |
| 1997-01-16 |
| NE Point, Crab Spit, Low Isles, fore reef (16° 23' 08'' S, 145° 34' 03'' E) |
| 18m |
| Hooper, Cook, Kennedy, Tomkins and List Qld Museum |
| G307750 |
| Queensland Museum |
| EtOH |
| J Kennedy |
Morphological description (show/hide)
| Birds nest, variform flabellate of cup-shaped, short stalk. | | Dark purple, blue-purple, mottled brown to pa | | Numerous, small, scattered over interior and exterior walls of rase. | | Harsh slightly compressible, difficult to tear (cf. Myora specimens soft, fibrous, spongy-perhaps sibling species). | | Ext face undulating, 3 dimensional, reticulate, ridges, int. surface more even, reticulate. | | membranous with few potruding spicules, often darkly pigmented granules near surface irregularly reticulate, cavernous. | | Choan. oxeas (114-595 x 2-18 um), subect. styles (110-603 x 2-14 um),echinating acanthostyles slightly swollen tip, spatulate non-serrate spines (70-150 x 6-18 um), spicules absent. | | 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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