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Material:
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: 6204­18­12, collected by HL in Little
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Strait (
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,
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) at
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depth. The
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is deposited at the Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt/Main,
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under the registration number
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10323.
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Description: The
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is a fragment of a larger sponge, scraped off the surface of a vertical bedrock wall. In life, it is a beige or light brown encrusting sponge (
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). In ethanol it is still light brown with reddish tinges in the interior. It is common on vertical and overhanging sides of bedrock and boulders and covers relatively large areas (approx. up to
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2) with a thickness of approx.
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. It has a convoluted surface with deep grooves between strands with a microtuberculated surface, thus somewhat rough to the touch. Tubercles are 120440 µm in height and 60320 µm in diameter and closely spaced. Its consistency is cheese­like, only slightly compressible. The interior is dense. No oscules were visible on the fragment collected but, video sequences obtained show circular oscules,
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in diameter, that are flush with the surface (
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).
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The ectosome is packed with lophocalthrops in a layer 20250 µm in thickness. Spicule categories are diods, triods, calthrops and lophocalthrops. Diods are characteristically bent, often centrotylote or, with a reduced third ray in the form of a spine. Dimensions are 85
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x 24 µm (
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). Triods occur in two categories: smooth, thinner triods, measuring 24
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x 25 µm/ray and thicker triods, often with one short, slender spine near the base of each ray, 22
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x 79 µm (
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). Calthrops (
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) are rare and the rays have the same dimensions as those of the triods. Trilophose calthrops are abundant, the non­lophose ray is sometimes bifurcate. Lophose rays are tetrafurcate and, again microfurcate at the points (
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). Lophocalthrops are smaller than the triods and concentrated in the ectosome. Total length of lophocalthrops is 2842 µm (
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and
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).
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Discussion: This species belongs to the
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<emphasis id="B911155BFF884A203A47FAD8FC36F757" box="[788,984,1281,1306]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="29">Plakina trilopha</emphasis>
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­ complex.
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<emphasis id="B911155BFF884A203D3BFAD8FAC4F757" box="[1128,1322,1281,1306]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="29">Plakina trilopha</emphasis>
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is a Mediterranean species and differs from
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<emphasis id="B911155BFF884A203A47FAF0FC6DF70F" box="[788,899,1321,1346]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="29">P. tanaga</emphasis>
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in its white color and smooth surface. Additionally, spicule sizes differ considerably (cf. Tab. 1) and, the lophocalthrops of
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<emphasis id="B911155BFF884A20387FFAA0FE44F7DF" box="[300,426,1401,1426]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="29">P. trilopha</emphasis>
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are mono­, di­, tri­ and tetralophose while
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<emphasis id="B911155BFF884A203A92FAA0FBDCF7DF" box="[961,1074,1401,1426]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="29">P. tanaga</emphasis>
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has trilophose lophocalthrops only.
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The three species
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,
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and
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<emphasis id="B911155BFF884A203A2FFA10FC16F7AF" box="[892,1016,1481,1506]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="29">P. pacifica</emphasis>
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are known only from the Galapagos Islands. They are much thinner encrusting forms than
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</emphasis>
(
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for
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,
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for
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<emphasis id="B911155BFF884A203B6FF9C0FD06F47F" box="[572,744,1561,1586]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="29">P. microlobata</emphasis>
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) and do not share the convoluted surface pattern of
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<emphasis id="B911155BFF884A20387EF998FE4FF417" box="[301,417,1601,1626]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="29">P. tanaga</emphasis>
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.
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<emphasis id="B911155BFF884A2038AFF998FD43F417" box="[508,685,1601,1626]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="29">P. microlobata</emphasis>
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also differs in having smooth triods and dilophose calthrops only.
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<emphasis id="B911155BFF884A203896F9B0FDA8F4CF" box="[453,582,1641,1666]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="29">P. pacifica</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has monolophose calthrops.
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<emphasis id="B911155BFF884A203AFEF9B0FBCAF4CF" box="[941,1060,1641,1666]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="29">P. fragilis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
shares the trilophose calthrops in which the non­lophose ray tends to be bifurcate with
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<emphasis id="B911155BFF884A203D1AF948FB53F4E7" box="[1097,1213,1681,1706]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="29">P. tanaga</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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In addition to the differences in growth form, the lophocalthrops of
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<emphasis id="B911155BFF884A203D55F960FB97F49F" box="[1030,1145,1721,1746]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="29">P. fragilis</emphasis>
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have trifurcate rays rather than the tetrafurcate rays in
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<emphasis id="B911155BFF884A203BBDF938FCB1F4B7" box="[750,863,1761,1786]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="29">P. tanaga</emphasis>
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<taxonomicNameLabel id="A222A820FF884A203A38F938FC48F4B6" box="[875,934,1761,1787]" pageId="2" pageNumber="29" rank="species">n.sp.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
<taxonomicName id="4C65B2CAFF884A203AE3F938FB8AF4B7" box="[944,1124,1761,1786]" class="Homoscleromorpha" family="Plakinidae" genus="Plakina" kingdom="Animalia" order="Homosclerophorida" pageId="2" pageNumber="29" phylum="Porifera" rank="species" species="bioxea">
<emphasis id="B911155BFF884A203AE3F938FB8AF4B7" box="[944,1124,1761,1786]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="29">Plakina bioxea</emphasis>
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from California differs in the occurrence of two size categories of oxeas, one of them considerably larger than in all known species of
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<emphasis id="B911155BFF884A203B2EF8E8FD36F507" box="[637,728,1841,1866]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="29">Plakina</emphasis>
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.
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<emphasis id="B911155BFF884A203BBEF8E8FCB0F507" box="[749,862,1841,1866]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="29">P. bioxea</emphasis>
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has small mono­, di­ and trilophose calthrops whereas
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<emphasis id="B911155BFF894A2138BCFEC5FD8DF378" box="[495,611,284,309]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="30">P. tanaga</emphasis>
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<taxonomicNameLabel id="A222A820FF894A213B22FEC2FD42F378" box="[625,684,283,309]" pageId="3" pageNumber="30" rank="species">n.sp.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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has trilophose calthrops only. Basal spicular tracts described for
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<emphasis id="B911155BFF894A2138FCFE9DFDF3F310" box="[431,541,324,349]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="30">P. bioxea</emphasis>
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are not present in
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<emphasis id="B911155BFF894A213A57FE9DFC9BF310" box="[772,885,324,349]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="30">P. tanaga</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B911155BFF894A213A97FE9DFB63F310" box="[964,1165,324,349]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="30">P. tetralophoides</emphasis>
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was initially described as
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<emphasis id="B911155BFF894A2138F5FEB5FDAEF3C8" box="[422,576,364,389]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="30">P. tetralopha</emphasis>
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by Tanita &amp; Hoshino (1988) from Sagami Bay,
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and is geographically the closest record of a congener to the species presented here.
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<emphasis id="B911155BFF894A213C46FE4DFE5FF398" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="30">P. tetralophoides</emphasis>
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differs in being a “petaline” sponge, only
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in thickness and
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height with a smooth surface. In spiculation,
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differs in having smaller tetralophose calthrops.
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<emphasis id="B911155BFF894A213B48FDD5FD20F068" box="[539,718,524,549]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="30">P. corticolopha</emphasis>
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differs in color, growth form and spiculation. This species has apart from trilophose calthrops, a large category of spined calthrops only. Diods and triods are lacking completely.
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<emphasis id="B911155BFF894A213BA6FD85FC77F038" box="[757,921,604,629]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="30">P. monolopha</emphasis>
sensu
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is described with monolophose calthrops but, judging from their figure of the calthrops (
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: p. 12, text­fig. 1c) they are trilophose and therefore, this species also belongs to the
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<emphasis id="B911155BFF894A213B54FD0DFD21F0A0" box="[519,719,724,749]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="30">Plakina trilopha</emphasis>
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species­complex.
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<emphasis id="B911155BFF894A213AE5FD0DFBB0F0A0" box="[950,1118,724,749]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="30">P. monolopha</emphasis>
sensu Tanita &amp; Hoshino
</taxonomicName>
, is an erect, conical sponge with a hollow central cavity and so differs considerably in growth form from all other species of
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<emphasis id="B911155BFF894A213ADAFCFDFC0AF170" box="[905,996,804,829]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="30">Plakina</emphasis>
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. In spiculation, this species differs in having simple, smooth diods only, and, in the occurrence of smaller triods and smaller trilophose calthrops. Due to the unusual growth form of
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<emphasis id="B911155BFF894A213AA7FCADFB7DF1C0" box="[1012,1171,884,909]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="30">P. monolopha</emphasis>
sensu
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it seems probable that this species represents another undescribed species of
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<emphasis id="B911155BFF894A2138D7FC1DFE31F190" box="[388,479,964,989]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="30">Plakina</emphasis>
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.
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Distribution: Known only from the
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locality.
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Etymology: Named after the locality ­ Little
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Strait ­ where the
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was found and collected.
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