| Submitted |
| Phakettia euctimena |
| 1990-11-11 |
| NW mainlnd, N Cape Wilberforce, Melville Bay, (11° 52' 06'' S, 136° 33' 03'' E) |
| 20m |
| unknown |
| G300758 |
| Queensland Museum |
| EtOH |
| B Alvarez |
Morphological description (show/hide)
| Thickly flabelli form-digitate, stipitate, growing in more than one plane, low bushy habit. | | Pale orange alive, grey brown in ethanol | | Very conulose surface. | | Vague axial condensation of longitudinal spicules, sort of plumose, with also vague extra-axial skeleton at about 70 degrees - 90 degrees to axis (dense and confused) extra axial spicules poking through surface, little spongin. | | Styles (~415-520 x 12-23 um), Flexous styles/oxeas (~400-710 x 11-23 um), robust spicules | | 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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