Morphological description (show/hide)
Birds nest, variform flabellate of cup-shaped, short stalk. | Dark purple, blue-purple, mottled brown to pa | Numerous, small, scattered over interior and exterior walls of rase. | Harsh slightly compressible, difficult to tear (cf. Myora specimens soft, fibrous, spongy-perhaps sibling species). | Ext face undulating, 3 dimensional, reticulate, ridges, int. surface more even, reticulate. | membranous with few potruding spicules, often darkly pigmented granules near surface irregularly reticulate, cavernous. | Choan. oxeas (114-595 x 2-18 um), subect. styles (110-603 x 2-14 um),echinating acanthostyles slightly swollen tip, spatulate non-serrate spines (70-150 x 6-18 um), 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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