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ae
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Por. 6303,
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,
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Shelf Expedition, station K101B,
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, depth
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, rectangular dredge,
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.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,345,1578,1603]" pageId="124" pageNumber="125">Description.</emphasis>
(
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a) Globular individual of approximally
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in diameter, provided with a single conical papilla
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high
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in diameter. Color beige in alcohol. Upper surface surrounding the papilla has a forest of individual long spicules (exotyles) protruding
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above the ectosome. Consistency firm.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,309,1686,1711]" pageId="124" pageNumber="125">Skeleton.</emphasis>
Similar to
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, consisting of long subtylostyles radiating from the inner core to the surface, a subectosomal layer of intermediate-sized tylostyles arranged at right angles to the radiating subtylostyles, and a surface palisade of small tylostyles. Exotyles pass individually through the outer layers and protrude far beyond the surface.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,304,1830,1855]" pageId="124" pageNumber="125">Spicules.</emphasis>
(
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be) Exotyles, subtylostyles, intermediate tylostyles, small tylostyles.
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Exotyles (
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b) provided with a tylote part with faint tyle (
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b1) at the inner end and a rugose elongate swelling at the outer end (
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b2), usually rather strongly curved; few of these exotyles could be retrieved undamaged, three measured
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µm, swollen rugose ends up to
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µm.
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Subtylostyles (
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c,c1,c2), heads elongate with subterminal restricted part, fusiform, distinctly polytylote at the bluntly rounded end (
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c2), dominating the skeleton, 840
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24 µm.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[151,290,1572,1594]" pageId="125" pageNumber="126">FIGURE 77.</emphasis>
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<taxonomicName box="[298,429,1572,1594]" class="Demospongiae" family="Polymastiidae" genus="Sphaerotylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hadromerida" pageId="125" pageNumber="126" phylum="Porifera" rank="genus">Sphaerotylus</taxonomicName>
bouryesnaultae
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, a, habitus of holotype RMNH Por. 6303 (scale bar = 1 cm), be, SEM images of spicules, b, exotyle details of both ends and middle part, b1, detail of tylote end, b2, detail of exotyle end, c, polytylote subtylostyle, b1, detail of upper end of c, c2, magnified details of c, d, intermediate tylostyle, d1, details of d, e, small ectosomal tylostyle, e1, details of e.
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Intermediate tylostyles, distinct tyles, straight, ending thinly, 528
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16 µm.
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Small tylostyles, globular tyle, usually curved, 105
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147
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5 µm.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,498,1798,1823]" pageId="125" pageNumber="126">Distribution and ecology.</emphasis>
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Shelf, sandy bottom, at
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depth.
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Named after Dr. Nicole Boury-Esnault (Station Marine dEndoume, Marseille) in acknowledgment of her important polymastiid studies and of her efforts to promote molecular approaches for the phylogeny of sponges.
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This specimen represents the first record of the genus
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from the
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Atlantic. The exotyle spicules of the new species with their curved shaft and elongate exotyles appear distinct among all the known species. The genus was recently reviewed by
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Plotkin
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(2016a)
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including the descriptions of three new species, but none of these were from the
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Atlantic region. Perhaps the closest species is
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African
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as it has the exotyle swellings also elongately irregular like in the present new species, but these exotyles are only up to 632 µm long in
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<emphasis box="[1177,1296,221,246]" italics="true" pageId="126" pageNumber="127">P. strobilis</emphasis>
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(against
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in the present species). Also the other spicules are distinctly different in size, whereas the shape differs with several papillae curved and ridged in
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<emphasis box="[580,699,290,315]" italics="true" pageId="126" pageNumber="127">S. strobilis</emphasis>
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. Elsewhere the genus is common in boreo-arctic waters (both in the North Atlantic and the North Pacific), and in Antarctic waters. Only a single record was so far known from the tropical zone,
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<emphasis box="[310,473,360,384]" italics="true" pageId="126" pageNumber="127">S. exospinosus</emphasis>
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from
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, at
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depth.
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