| Submitted |
| Endectyon (Endectyon) fruticosum aruense |
| 1990-06-02 |
| NE tip of Ko Yao Hyai, E of Phuket I., Andama (8° 4' 60'' N, 98° 31' 60'' E) |
| 14m |
| Hooper, J.N.A. Qld Museum |
| G300254 |
| Queensland Museum |
| EtOH |
| JNA Hooper |
Morphological description (show/hide)
| Small digitative, short stalk, flattened bifurcate branches, rounded margins. | | Red to red-brown alive, khaki in ethanol. | | Not seen. | | Harsh, flexible. | | Even, prominently hispid. | | Axial skeleton dense, clearly reticulate, no fibres, criss-cross of choan. axial styles, subect. extra-axial skeleton radial, with echinating acanthostyles erect on margins of axial skeleton. | | Special raspailiid skeleton of long subect. extra-axial styles surrounded by whispy brushes of ect. anisoxeas/styles. | | Choan. Axial styles (308-482 x 8-13 um), subect. Styles/anioxeas (282-358 x 1-4 um), echinating acanthostyles with large recurved spines (141-193 x 10-17 um). | | 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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