Placospongia anthosigma (Becking, Leontine E. 2013)
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Ordo: Hadromerida
Familia: Placospongiidae
Genus: Placospongia
Name
Placospongia anthosigma Becking, Leontine E., 2013 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Placospongia anthosigma Becking, Leontine E., 2013, ZooKeys 298: 45-46.
Description
Description. HolotypeNSMT-Po R288 encrusting specimen in three pieces of 1-2cm2 and 5mm thick, beige to pink in alcohol (Figure 3A). Spicules. Megascleres large tylostyles with blunt point 520-797-930 x 15-18-20 x 18-20-23 [my] m, small tylostyles with blunt point 250-320-410 x 10-12-18 x 13-14-18 [my] m; microscleres selenasters 85-90-98 x 70-73-80 [my] m,spherasters 15-19-25 [my] m, stout spirasters with two or three contortions and acanthose spines spirally placed on shaft 8-11-18 x 3-4.5-5 [my] m (Fig. 3) Skeleton. As description of genus with addition that spirasters form a layer over and amidst the selenaster cortex and are also prevalent in choanosomal tissue. Spherasters amidst selenaster cortex and dispersed in choanosome.
Distribution
Distribution. Typelocality Sagami Bay, Eastern Japan, presently not recorded from any other locality.
Taxon Treatment
- Becking, Leontine E.; 2013: Revision of the genus Placospongia (Porifera, Demospongiae, Hadromerida, Placospongiidae) in the Indo-West Pacific ZooKeys, 298: 45-46. doi
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