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
8641
10.11646/zootaxa.4912.1.1
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1175-5326
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Mycale (Carmia) relicta
Annandale, 1924
Mycale relicta
Annandale, 1924: 405
, fig. 3;
Pattanayak 2009: 26
.
Summary description
. Encrusting on a dead branch in a brackish lake (salinity 22.8%o), thickness
3 cm
. Skeleton largely macerated and containing ingrown algal thallus. Mycalostyles fusiform with wide axial canal, 216–383 x
7–10 µm
. Anisochelae, narrow, with lower median alae pointed and shape ‘retroverted’, in a single size
20–26 µm
(not in rosettes). Sigmas, thin, in a single size,
44–60 µm
.
Distribution
. Verlaten Island, near Krakatoa, Western
Indonesia
, in brackish lake.
Comment
. Again hard to distinguish from
M. (C.) maunakea
and
M. (C.) mytilorum
, but its peculiar chelashape may indicate specific distinctness.