Submitted |
Acanthella sp. 465 |
1993-06-01 |
Hendersons Reef, E of Moreton Island (27° 8' 01'' S, 153° 28' 07'' E) |
25m |
Hooper, J.N.A. and Cook, S.D. Qld Museum |
G303176 |
Queensland Museum |
EtOH |
JNA Hooper |
1st of January 1970 |
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Morphological description (show/hide)
Erect, stipitate, flabellate, bulbous or planer, digitate margins. | Orange alive. | Large, raised, fleshy margins, face of fan. | Soft, slimy. | Large pointed conules interconnected with ridges, fleshy appearance. | Sinuous tracts of strongyloxeas, coring close-set irregularly reticulate fibres, moderate light collagenous mesohyl | Collagenous, few spicules protrude. | Oxeas, strongyles, anisostrongyles, rounder or stepped ends (210 -430 x 6- 8um). | Raphides (60 -12 x 0.5um). |
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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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