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B, 4C, H, 5C)
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material.
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1996.7.3.1: Rheeders Bay,
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National Park,
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,
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;
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, collected by P. Coetzee, University of Port Elizabeth,
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,
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material.
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4962: Rheeders Bay,
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National Park,
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, collected by P. Coetzee, University of Port Elizabeth,
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Semispherical sponge, 5
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x 5 x
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cm (length x width x height) (
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B). Surface smooth with numerous regularly spaced, low, cylindrical oscules,
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high and
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wide. Numerous short, thick lipped crater­like areolate porefields,
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wide,
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high, with a distinct net­like poral membrane. Texture firm, resilient and leathery. Colour in life is olive green, mottled with brown patches, dark chocolate brown in preservative. Contains biologically active pyrroloquilonine alkaloids, discorhabdins A &amp; H (Hooper et al., 1996;
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; Samaai, 2002; Antunes et al., unpublished data­ a).
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Styles: smooth with slight irregular inflations on shaft, centrally thickened, hastate and slightly sinuous, 397 (374422) x 9.6 (9.6) m.
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Anisodiscorhabds (Fig. 4C): Manubrium base is bulky and irregularly spinose, basal shaft
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wide, median whorl
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diameter, apical whorl with spines slanted upwards, apex a small, regular crown­like tuft of spines. All whorls are notched along rim and divided into four segments, each segment with denticulate margins. Median and subsidiary whorls with secondary spines; 55 (5060)
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(7.29.6) m. Microacanthoxeas (Fig. 4H): straight, thin, slightly blunt on both ends; 52 (5055) x
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.
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The choanosomal architecture is a dense well developed irregular polygonal­meshed reticulation formed by wispy tracts of styles (
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C). The tracts range in width from
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in thickness, and form meshes that are
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wide. Towards the surface the tracts become dense, more regular,
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wide, plumose, and
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wide. Numerous megascleres and microscleres are scattered interstitially. Microacanthoxeas lines the tracts of the choanosome. The ectosome is clearly visible between microscleres in the surface palisade. Beneath the ectosome is a thick, paratengential layer of megascleres, approximately
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deep.
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<emphasis id="B923EAD3670BFF9FFE85FC1ABFA4EDF0" bold="true" box="[312,417,924,950]" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Ecology.</emphasis>
Found on horizontal rocky substrata or under rocky overhangs, together with coral, bryozoa and other sponges at about
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.
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<subSubSection id="C34D654A670BFF9FFE85FC6ABAF7EA40" box="[312,1266,1004,1030]" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" type="etymology">
<paragraph id="8BE836C1670BFF9FFE85FC6ABAF7EA40" blockId="13.[264,1325,283,1430]" box="[312,1266,1004,1030]" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">
<emphasis id="B923EAD3670BFF9FFE85FC6ABFC1EA40" bold="true" box="[312,452,1004,1030]" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Etymology.</emphasis>
Named for the characteristic microacanthoxeas found in this species.
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<subSubSection id="C34D654A670BFF9FFE85FB92BFBBEBD0" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="8BE836C1670BFF9FFE85FB92BFBBEBD0" blockId="13.[264,1325,283,1430]" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">
<emphasis id="B923EAD3670BFF9FFE85FB92BFB4EA68" bold="true" box="[312,433,1044,1070]" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Remarks.</emphasis>
<taxonomicName id="4C574D42670BFF9FFE05FB92BD10EA6B" box="[440,789,1044,1069]" class="Demospongiae" family="Latrunculiidae" genus="Latrunculia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Poecilosclerida" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" phylum="Porifera" rank="species" species="microacanthoxea" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="B923EAD3670BFF9FFE05FB92BD10EA6B" box="[440,789,1044,1069]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Latrunculia microacanthoxea</emphasis>
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<taxonomicNameLabel id="A21057A8670BFF9FFCA1FB92BD73EA68" box="[796,886,1044,1070]" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
is morphologically very similar to
<taxonomicName id="4C574D42670BFF9FFAAEFB92BF82EA13" class="Demospongiae" family="Latrunculiidae" genus="Latrunculia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Poecilosclerida" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" phylum="Porifera" rank="species" species="lunaviridis" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="B923EAD3670BFF9FFAAEFB92BF82EA13" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">L. lunaviridis</emphasis>
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and is not easily differentiated from it on field characteristics; both species are olive green and have similar surface structures. The colouration in preservative is different, however;
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<emphasis id="B923EAD3670BFF9FFDB3FB0ABCA8EAE3" box="[526,685,1164,1189]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">L. lunaviridis</emphasis>
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<taxonomicNameLabel id="A21057A8670BFF9FFD08FB0ABD17EAE0" box="[693,786,1164,1190]" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
is lighter and greener. Apart from some very minor differences in the morphology of the microsclere, the primary criteria for separation of this species from
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<emphasis id="B923EAD3670BFF9FFE41FB5ABC9EEAB3" box="[508,667,1244,1269]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">L. lunaviridis</emphasis>
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is the presence of microacanthoxeas, apparent restriction to the Eastern Cape coastline at
<taxonomicName id="4C574D42670BFF9FFCBAFA82BD99EB58" box="[775,924,1284,1310]" class="Demospongiae" family="Latrunculiidae" genus="Tsitsikamma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Poecilosclerida" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" phylum="Porifera" rank="genus">Tsitsikamma</taxonomicName>
National Park, and the lack of 3­ dihydrodiscorhabdins, found in
<taxonomicName id="4C574D42670BFF9FFD3CFAAABD25EB03" box="[641,800,1324,1349]" class="Demospongiae" family="Latrunculiidae" genus="Latrunculia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Poecilosclerida" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" phylum="Porifera" rank="species" species="lunaviridis" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="B923EAD3670BFF9FFD3CFAAABD25EB03" box="[641,800,1324,1349]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">L. lunaviridis</emphasis>
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<taxonomicNameLabel id="A21057A8670BFF9FFC95FAAABD7BEB00" box="[808,894,1324,1350]" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" rank="species">sp. nov</taxonomicNameLabel>
(see
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). An unusual and quite consistent histological feature is the sparseness of the ectosomal palisade in
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<emphasis id="B923EAD3670BFF9FFB38FAD2BF53EBD3" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">L. microacanthoxea</emphasis>
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<taxonomicNameLabel id="A21057A8670BFF9FFEE0FAFABFB6EBD0" box="[349,435,1404,1430]" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" rank="species">sp. nov</taxonomicNameLabel>
..
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