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<emphasis bold="true" box="[151,426,1831,1857]" italics="true" pageId="173" pageNumber="174">Hemiasterella camelus</emphasis>
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ae
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[151,383,1937,1962]" pageId="173" pageNumber="174">Material examined.</emphasis>
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Por. 9924,
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,
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II
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Shelf Expedition, station M97,
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, depth
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<elevation box="[542,615,1974,1998]" metricMagnitude="2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.3" pageId="173" pageNumber="174" unit="m" value="130.0">130 m</elevation>
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, bottom coarse sand,
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.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,345,2009,2034]" pageId="173" pageNumber="174">Description.</emphasis>
The
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(
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a) is bilobate, pale orange-brown in alcohol, with a punctate micronulose surface. Lobes crowned by apical oscules, which appear irregularly compound with several smaller and larger partially connected openings, likely caused by collapse of wider openings. Maximum height of specimen
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, maximum width
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, lobes
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diameter at the base, approximately
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diameter at the top. Consistency firm, rather incompressible.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,309,295,320]" pageId="174" pageNumber="175">Skeleton.</emphasis>
At the surface there is a thick cover of aster microscleres carried by loose bundles of both smaller and larger oxeas, which push up the surface into low blunt conules. Inbetween these conules there is a network of inhalant openings
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in size. The skeleton of the choanosome is largely confused, consisting of individual larger oxeas strewn without obvious direction, and crowded asters. Smaller asters rare, found in dissoluted spicule mounts, but not readily detected in a thick sections.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,304,476,501]" pageId="174" pageNumber="175">Spicules.</emphasis>
(
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be) Oxeas, oxyspherasters.
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Oxeas, straight, fusiform, sharply pointed, occasionally with stylote heads, in two size categories, (1) large and thick (
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b,b1),
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1740
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58 µm, and (2) small and thin (
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c,c1), 597
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963
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24 µm.
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Oxyspherasters, smooth, with sharply pointed conical rays, in two size categories, (1) larger (
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d), 35
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78 µm, ray number 6
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16, and (2) smaller (
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e), 7
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18 µm, ray number 10
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12.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,498,692,717]" pageId="174" pageNumber="175">Distribution and ecology.</emphasis>
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Shelf, on sandy bottom at
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.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,334,727,752]" pageId="174" pageNumber="175">Etymology.</emphasis>
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(L.) = camel, referring to the shape of the
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resembling a camels two humps.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[151,301,1957,1979]" pageId="174" pageNumber="175">FIGURE 109.</emphasis>
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<taxonomicName box="[308,450,1956,1978]" class="Demospongiae" family="Hemiasterellidae" genus="Hemiasterella" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hadromerida" pageId="174" pageNumber="175" phylum="Porifera" rank="genus">Hemiasterella</taxonomicName>
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,
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a, habitus of holotype RMNH Por. 9924 (scale bar = 1 cm), b, large oxea, b1, details of b, c, small oxea, c1, details of c, d, large oxyspherasters, e, small oxyspheraster.
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The only other
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Atlantic
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<emphasis box="[760,918,151,176]" italics="true" pageId="175" pageNumber="176">Hemiasterella</emphasis>
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is
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<emphasis box="[956,1041,153,176]" italics="true" pageId="175" pageNumber="176">H. ajax</emphasis>
(
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)
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(originally
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) from an inland mangrove pond in
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.
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A
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,
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1948.8
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.6.49, was examined.
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shows considerable similarity to the new species: it is a globular mass with large fusiform oxeas as megascleres and two distinct size categories of oxy(spher)asters as microscleres.
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are also compelling differences between the two species. The
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specimen is white (in life as well as in alcohol), the larger oxeas are thinner and longer (15003300
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µm), there are no small oxeas in the size range below 1000 µm, and the larger oxyasters are not oxyspherasters and all have a small number of rays (usually 34).
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, the
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species is only known from a shallow water inland pond, quite the opposite of the new species, which was taken at
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depth.
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Some resemblance is also apparent with the recently described
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<emphasis box="[904,1081,476,501]" italics="true" pageId="175" pageNumber="176">Jaspis atolensis</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation author="Lira" box="[1087,1334,476,501]" pageId="175" pageNumber="176" refString="Lira, J. &amp; Pinheiro, U. (2015) Five new species of Jaspis (Porifera: Demospongiae: Tetractinellida: Astrophorina) from Brazil with redescription of the type species Jaspis johnstonii (Schmidt, 1862). Zootaxa, 4028 (1), 51 - 80. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4028.1.2" type="journal article" year="2015">Lira &amp; Pinheiro, 2015</bibRefCitation>
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from the Atol das Rocas in NE
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(depth given as loose above the reef, thus probably from shallow-water). The shape is dissimilar, but irregularly massive, so not too distinct from
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<emphasis box="[901,1034,548,573]" italics="true" pageId="175" pageNumber="176">H. camelus</emphasis>
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Its skeleton and spicule complement is not unlike the above-described specimen, but the larger oxeas are only up to
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µm (against up to 2220
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x
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in
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<emphasis box="[363,489,620,645]" italics="true" pageId="175" pageNumber="176">H. camelus</emphasis>
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<taxonomicNameLabel box="[496,586,620,645]" pageId="175" pageNumber="176" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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). In view of this and the different depth occurrence, it is likely a related but different species. Assignment to
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<emphasis box="[539,609,657,680]" italics="true" pageId="175" pageNumber="176">Jaspis</emphasis>
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appears unjustified as the smaller oxeas are not arranged tangentially as in the
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species,
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<emphasis box="[539,677,692,717]" italics="true" pageId="175" pageNumber="176">J. johnstonii</emphasis>
(
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)
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. Lira &amp; Pinheiros (2015) redescription of the
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specimen of Schmidt rather contrasts with those of earlier authors (
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as
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<taxonomicName box="[1091,1328,727,752]" class="Demospongiae" family="Ancorinidae" genus="Coppatias" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Tetractinellida" pageId="175" pageNumber="176" phylum="Porifera" rank="species" species="johnstonii">Coppatias johnstonii</taxonomicName>
,
</emphasis>
and
<bibRefCitation author="Uriz" pageId="175" pageNumber="176" refString="Uriz, M. J. (2002) Family Ancorinidae Schmidt, 1870. In: Hooper, J. N. A. &amp; Van Soest, R. W. M. (Eds.), Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of sponges 1. Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow, pp. 108 - 126." type="journal article" year="2002">Uriz 2002</bibRefCitation>
) by its emphasis on an undifferentiated ectosome. This probably relates to the quality of the dry
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material rather than to the true properties of
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<emphasis box="[696,891,799,824]" italics="true" pageId="175" pageNumber="176">Jaspis johnstonii</emphasis>
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, which does have an ectosomal tangential or paratangential crust of the smaller oxeas.
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<emphasis box="[616,793,836,861]" italics="true" pageId="175" pageNumber="176">Jaspis atolensis</emphasis>
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fits probably better in
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<emphasis box="[1049,1206,836,861]" italics="true" pageId="175" pageNumber="176">Hemiasterella</emphasis>
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.
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