Submitted |
Echinodictyum cancellatum |
1991-11-30 |
NW of Sketty Belle Shoal, Gulf of Carpentaria (10° 11' 01'' S, 141° 34' 08'' E) |
12m |
Cook, S.D. on CSIRO RV Southern Surveyor |
G300863 |
Queensland Museum |
EtOH |
JNA Hooper |
1st of January 1970 |
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Morphological description (show/hide)
Interconnected reticulate branches, branching usually in 1 plane, digitate, sl. flattened angular branches. | Pale brown to purple alive. | Not seen. | Sl. compressible, porous, sl. harsh. | Optically smooth. | Reticulate, multispicular tracts of oxeas, heavily echinated by acanthostyles. | Reticulate. | Choan. oxeas (177-445 x 5-14 um), echinating acanthostyles (145-151 x 3-10 um), subect. styles (115-131 x 3-4 um), ect.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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