Mycale species of the tropical Indo-West Pacific (Porifera, Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida)
Author
Van, Rob W. M.
Author
Aryasari, Ratih
Author
De, Nicole J.
0000-0002-7985-5604
rob.vansoest@naturalis.nl
text
Zootaxa
2021
2021-01-19
4912
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4912.1.1
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1175-5326
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Mycale (Mycale) incurvata
Lévi, 1993
Mycale incurvata
Lévi, 1993: 35
, pl. III fig. 7, text-fig. 12.
Summary description
. Shape hollow-flabelliform, size 7 x 4 x
2.5 cm
. Surface provided with a system of intercrossing grooves and ridges. Color greenish yellow-grey. Ectosomal skeleton not described but presumably tangential, carried by bouquets of the choanosomal plumoreticulate spicule tracts. ‘Pseudorosettes’ of anisochelae I are fixed to the subectosomal spicule tracts. Spicules mycalostyles 400–590 x
12–15 µm
, anisochelae I
100 µm
, anisochelae II
38–48 µm
, anisochelae III
20–22 µm
(not spurred).
Distribution
.
New Caledonia
, depth
680–700 µm
.
Comment
. The species is unique in the region considered in lacking both sigmas and trichodragmas, shared only with
M. (M.) trichela
from the Atlantic coasts of
South Africa
. It is otherwise closest to
M. (M.) asigmata
sp.nov.
and
M. (M.) myriasclera
(cf. above in the Remarks of
M. (M.) asigmata
sp.nov
.
).