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<emphasis bold="true" box="[151,445,1628,1654]" italics="true" pageId="87" pageNumber="88">Erylus rhabdocoronatus</emphasis>
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ag
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9339, French
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, Luymes
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Shelf Expedition, station 14,
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, depth
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, bottom muddy calcareous sand,
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.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,519,1806,1831]" pageId="87" pageNumber="88">Examined for comparison.</emphasis>
Slide of the
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of
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<emphasis box="[804,948,1806,1831]" italics="true" pageId="87" pageNumber="88">Erylus alleni</emphasis>
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A fragment of a finger-shaped sponge (
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a),
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high and
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in diameter. Color in alcohol beige, both inside and outside. Surface optically smooth, but microhispid due to being overgrown by a thinly encrusting
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(see below); no apparent openings. Consistency firm, but fragile.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,309,1986,2011]" pageId="87" pageNumber="88">Skeleton.</emphasis>
The usual surface skeleton is present consisting of a layer of partially overlapping aspidasters covered by a dense mass of microrhabds and carried by the cladomes of subcortical orthotriaenes. Choanosomal skeleton a largely confused mass of oxeas and a few triaenes, with bundles of oxeas traversing the choanosome.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,304,223,248]" pageId="88" pageNumber="89">Spicules.</emphasis>
(
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bg) Oxeas, plagiotriaenes, microrhabds, aspidasters, two categories of oxyasters.
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Oxeas (
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b,b1), fusiform, curved, with sharp points, 261
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648
<date box="[1009,1056,260,284]" pageId="88" pageNumber="89" value="2014-10">x 14</date>
<emphasis box="[1072,1121,260,284]" italics="true" pageId="88" pageNumber="89">21.1</emphasis>
29 µm.
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Ortho/plagiotriaenes (
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c), short-shafted; rhabdomes 204
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378
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<emphasis box="[1154,1203,296,320]" italics="true" pageId="88" pageNumber="89">15.3</emphasis>
24 µm, cladomes 305
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450 µm; cladi 163
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224
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<emphasis box="[636,681,332,357]" italics="true" pageId="88" pageNumber="89">11.6</emphasis>
21 µm.
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Microrhabds (
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d,d1), curved, centrotylote, all are provided with rounded ends bearing a crown of conical spines (
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d1); sizes 36
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2.5
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6 µm.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[151,288,1923,1945]" pageId="88" pageNumber="89">FIGURE 55.</emphasis>
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<emphasis box="[294,540,1923,1945]" italics="true" pageId="88" pageNumber="89">Erylus rhabdocoronatus</emphasis>
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, a, habitus of holotype RMNH Por. 9339 (scale bar = 1 cm), bg, SEM images of spicules, b, oxea, b1, details of b, c, orthotriaene, d, microrhabd, d1, enlarged microrhabd to show crowns of spines on the apices, e, aspidaster, e1, detail of surface of aspidaster, f, large oxyasters, g, small oxyaster.
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Aspidasters (
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e,e1), oval, thin, provided with rather spaced out rosettes, 138
<emphasis box="[1132,1174,152,176]" italics="true" pageId="89" pageNumber="90">148</emphasis>
159
<date box="[1237,1285,152,176]" pageId="89" pageNumber="90" value="1989-10">x 89</date>
<emphasis box="[1300,1328,152,176]" italics="true" pageId="89" pageNumber="90">94</emphasis>
102 µm.
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Large oxyasters (
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f), with almost smooth rays, only occasional spines, variable diameters, 19
<emphasis box="[1366,1394,188,212]" italics="true" pageId="89" pageNumber="90">52</emphasis>
60 µm, ray number 36.
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Small oxyasters (
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Fig.
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g), with much more rays, but also with few spines; diameters 12
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21 µm, ray number 914.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,498,332,357]" pageId="89" pageNumber="90">Distribution and ecology.</emphasis>
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Shelf, sandy bottom at
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depth.
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<subSubSection box="[199,1245,367,392]" pageId="89" pageNumber="90" type="etymology">
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,334,367,392]" pageId="89" pageNumber="90">Etymology.</emphasis>
The name reflects the crown of blunt spines on the apices of all the microrhabds.
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<subSubSection pageId="89" pageNumber="90" type="discussion">
<paragraph blockId="89.[151,1436,151,1184]" pageId="89" pageNumber="90">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,315,404,429]" pageId="89" pageNumber="90">Remarks.</emphasis>
The new species differs from the closest species,
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<emphasis box="[890,987,404,429]" italics="true" pageId="89" pageNumber="90">E. alleni</emphasis>
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in the following features—based on a comparison with a slide made from the
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22268 and spicule measurements—(1) the aspidasters are larger (138159
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102 µm in the present species vs. 70114
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µm in
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<emphasis box="[180,275,511,536]" italics="true" pageId="89" pageNumber="90">E. alleni</emphasis>
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(curiously De Laubenfels gives only 70
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µm); (2) the microrhabds do not have the crown of spines and are on average shorter; (3) oxeas are approximately half as thick in
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<emphasis box="[958,1053,548,573]" italics="true" pageId="89" pageNumber="90">E. alleni</emphasis>
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; (4) the euaster sizes given by De Laubenfels are half the diameter (30 µm and 7 µm) of those of the new species, but re-measurement yielded sizes on average similar in both species. Perhaps De Laubenfels gave measurements of the rays. However, the shape of the rays of the larger euasters differs clearly in
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<emphasis box="[681,776,655,680]" italics="true" pageId="89" pageNumber="90">E. alleni</emphasis>
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by being thinner and curved or slightly flexuous, not rigid like in
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<emphasis box="[228,245,693,716]" italics="true" pageId="89" pageNumber="90">E</emphasis>
.
<emphasis box="[260,451,692,717]" italics="true" pageId="89" pageNumber="90">rhabdocoronatus</emphasis>
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<taxonomicNameLabel box="[458,548,692,717]" pageId="89" pageNumber="90" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
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Mothes
<emphasis box="[290,346,727,752]" italics="true" pageId="89" pageNumber="90">et al.</emphasis>
(1999) redescribed
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<emphasis box="[569,664,727,752]" italics="true" pageId="89" pageNumber="90">E. alleni</emphasis>
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and also assigned several specimens along the Brazilian coast to that species. Spicules of one of the specimens were depicted in their fig. 4 and these images appear close to those of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="89" pageNumber="90">E. rhabdocoronatus</emphasis>
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</emphasis>
, especially the euasters, but there are no spines on the ends of the microrhabds, and the shape of the aspidaster is subtly broader. The larger oxyasters in Mothes
<emphasis box="[991,1050,836,861]" italics="true" pageId="89" pageNumber="90">et al.</emphasis>
s
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<emphasis box="[1077,1174,836,861]" italics="true" pageId="89" pageNumber="90">E. alleni</emphasis>
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are dissimilar to those seen in the slide of the
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of
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<emphasis box="[544,639,871,896]" italics="true" pageId="89" pageNumber="90">E. alleni</emphasis>
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examined here.
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<bibRefCitation box="[199,533,908,933]" pageId="89" pageNumber="90" refString="Van Soest, R. W. M. &amp; Stentoft, N. (1988) Barbados Deep-Water Sponges. In: Hummelinck, P. W. &amp; Van der Steen, L. J. (Eds.), Uitgaven van de Natuurwetenschappelijke Studiekring voor Suriname en de Nederlandse Antillen. No. 122. Studies on the Fauna of Curacao and other Caribbean Islands, 70 (215), 1 - 175. Avaliable from: http: // www. repository. naturalis. nl / document / 549872 (Accessed 11 Jan. 2017)" type="journal article">Van Soest &amp; Stentoft (1988)</bibRefCitation>
(p. 17) reported
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<emphasis box="[739,927,908,933]" italics="true" pageId="89" pageNumber="90">Erylus transiens</emphasis>
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from
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off
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, which does not conform to Weltners (1882) description of that species (perhaps it is
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<emphasis box="[970,1094,945,968]" italics="true" pageId="89" pageNumber="90">E. corneus</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation author="Boury-Esnault" box="[1105,1346,943,968]" pageId="89" pageNumber="90" refString="Boury-Esnault, N. (1973) Resultats scientifiques des campagnes de la &quot; Calypso &quot;." type="book" year="1973">Boury-Esnault, 1973</bibRefCitation>
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). These authors suggested
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<emphasis box="[356,490,981,1004]" italics="true" pageId="89" pageNumber="90">E. transiens</emphasis>
sensu
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and
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<emphasis box="[768,863,980,1005]" italics="true" pageId="89" pageNumber="90">E. alleni</emphasis>
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were synonyms. According to Mothes
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(1999: 375), followed by Muricy
<emphasis box="[454,512,1015,1040]" italics="true" pageId="89" pageNumber="90">et al.</emphasis>
(2011: 44), the two species differ in the possession of one (
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<emphasis box="[1200,1336,1017,1040]" italics="true" pageId="89" pageNumber="90">E. transiens</emphasis>
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) vs. two categories of oxyasters.
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The decoration of the microrhabds with crowns of spines is intermediate between entirely smooth microrhabds and those that are spined all over such as in
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<emphasis box="[666,866,1124,1149]" italics="true" pageId="89" pageNumber="90">Erylus granularis</emphasis>
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from the
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and
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<emphasis box="[1290,1436,1124,1149]" italics="true" pageId="89" pageNumber="90">Erylus soesti</emphasis>
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from
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.
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</paragraph>
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