| Submitted |
| Crella (Grayella) cyathophora Carter, |
| 1994-04-09 |
| NW of Lizard I., W of Underwood Shoal, GBR (14° 35' 01'' S, 145° 20' 08'' E) |
| 24m |
| DPI, FRV Gwendoline May |
| G304373 |
| Queensland Museum |
| EtOH |
| JNA Hooper |
| 24th of June 2013 |
| JNA Hooper |
Morphological description (show/hide)
| Fleshy binding lumps. Gives off red dye. | | Dark red alive | | brown in ethanol | | Many scattered above surface minute slightly raised--look like small bumps | | Mucusy, soft, compressible: feels leathery in ethanol | | Opaque, optically smooth on deck, but in situ the surface is microconulose | | Meandering multispicular tracts in moderately thick pigmented mesohyl. | | Very peculiar parallel arrangement of spicules to confused array. | | Strongyloxeas or tornotes average 270 um long. Oxeas - minutely spined | | nil |
|
| Crella cyathophora is a reduced species lacking chelae or acanthostyles, having raised areolae, spinned oxeas in the surface and tornote tracts in the choanosome. |
