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<paragraph id="8BE16E22C015FFDCFF40CE1EDDC5EE24" blockId="23.[151,701,258,311]" box="[151,668,258,280]" pageId="23" pageNumber="324">Etymology from Latin, meaning to creep, to crawl.</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B92AB230C015FFDCFF40CE3DDE7CEE0B" box="[151,293,289,311]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="324">Agelas repens</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B92AB230C015FFDCFF40CAF3DE4BE939" bold="true" box="[151,274,1519,1541]" pageId="23" pageNumber="324">FIGURE 9.</emphasis>
Photographs of
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from Jamaica. A) Dry Holotype at ZMA. B) in situ, hanging from the wall of a reef slope crevice. C) Several freshly collected specimens; the scale represents 20 cm length and 0,5 cm width.
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12870), collected at reefs in front of the mouth of Río Bueno,
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, on the ceiling of a cave,
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depth. The material reviewed here includes only specimens from
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locality (INV
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1012, 1013, 1014).
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This species seems restricted to
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, so we consider this as a Greater Antilles species, but see remarks. Our specimens were found from
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in depth, abundant at
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23
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<emphasis id="B92AB230C015FFDCFF10C83FDE00E800" bold="true" box="[199,345,1827,1852]" pageId="23" pageNumber="324">Description.</emphasis>
This species has a thin cord-like form (
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A), sometimes found solitary (
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B), branched or irregularly repent. The body hangs from a fleshy, patchy base, encrusted on walls and overhangs. Branches are up to
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in diameter and
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long; the base is up to
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by
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and
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thick. Its external colour is spectrum orange, internal colour orange yellow. It is compressible, flexible and elastic in life or preserved, still flexible when dry.
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Oscules are tiny, almost invisible to the naked eye (&lt;
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), surrounded by a star-like area where exhalant channels lead to them. Pinacoderm supported by tracts of spicules, collapses out of the water revealing a rough outline of subdermal channels (&lt;
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) and other structures. Choanosome is apparently dense.
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Skeleton of cored (27 spicules per cross section) primary fibres, loosely echinated, 2050 Μm in diameter. When the coring spicules are absent fibres are hardly distinguishable; secondary fibres 2030 Μm in diameter, poorly echinated; no tertiaries present. Acanthostyles are straight and long with 56 spines per whorl; length 88268 (180±46.1) µm, width 313 (8±2.1) µm and 923 (16±4.1) whorls per spicule. Detailed lengths, widths and average number of whorls are shown in
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.
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<emphasis id="B92AB230C01AFFD3FF10CE88DE62EE91" bold="true" box="[199,315,404,429]" pageId="24" pageNumber="325">Remarks.</emphasis>
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is found hanging from walls on caves like long and thin cords. As far as we have explored, Rio Bueno is the only locality where this species is present. Lehnert &amp; van
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noted that this species is rather similar to some deep, thin specimens of
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from
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(ZMAPOR
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). Our specimens of
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<emphasis id="B92AB230C01AFFD3FEB2CD1CDEB3ED24" box="[357,490,512,536]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="325">A. sceptrum</emphasis>
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from Rosario Islands and San Andres Island are the ones most similar to
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<emphasis id="B92AB230C01AFFD3FAFBCD1CDACCED24" box="[1324,1429,512,536]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="325">A. repens</emphasis>
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. The differences in skeletal and spicule architecture and size are not enough to decide whether they are the same species, but the cryptic habit (or depth preference) and the resemblance in external morphology in
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<emphasis id="B92AB230C01AFFD3FAD7CD54DA32ED5C" box="[1280,1387,584,608]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="325">A. repens</emphasis>
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and Belizean, Colombian and Barbadian
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<emphasis id="B92AB230C01AFFD3FDEDCD70DD9BEDB8" box="[570,706,620,644]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="325">A. sceptrum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
vs. the exposed habitat and thickly branched habit of typical
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<emphasis id="B92AB230C01AFFD3FA53CD70DFA7ED94" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="325">A. sceptrum</emphasis>
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from
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calls for synonymy. ITS and CO1 DNA analyses also placed
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<emphasis id="B92AB230C01AFFD3FBB8CD8CDB83ED94" box="[1135,1242,656,680]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="325">A. repens</emphasis>
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together with
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<emphasis id="B92AB230C01AFFD3FA53CD8CDFA7EDF0" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="325">A. sceptrum</emphasis>
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, but this is inconclusive as these species were also indistinguishable from
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<emphasis id="B92AB230C01AFFD3FBBFCDA8DBB8EDF0" box="[1128,1249,692,716]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="325">A. dilatata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis id="B92AB230C01AFFD3FB24CDA8DA2BEDF0" box="[1267,1394,692,716]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="325">A. conifera</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis id="B92AB230C01AFFD3FA53CDA8DFADEDCC" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="325">A. tubulata</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="B92AB230C01AFFD3FEFDCDC4DEEAEDCC" box="[298,435,728,752]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="325">A. cerebrum</emphasis>
(
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)
</taxonomicName>
. However Jamaican
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<emphasis id="B92AB230C01AFFD3FC4BCDC4DB5DEDCC" box="[924,1028,728,752]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="325">A. repens</emphasis>
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were never thicker than
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, while Southern Caribbean
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<emphasis id="B92AB230C01AFFD3FEAACDE0DD5BEC28" box="[381,514,764,788]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="325">A. sceptrum</emphasis>
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were rarely this thin.
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Additionally, at the
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locality we noted that the external colour and tissue texture of
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<emphasis id="B92AB230C01AFFD3FB60CC3CDA7BEC04" box="[1207,1314,800,824]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="325">A. repens</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
were very similar to those of
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<emphasis id="B92AB230C01AFFD3FEB0CC58DE89EC60" box="[359,464,836,860]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="325">A. citrina</emphasis>
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living nearby. We then had the idea that
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<emphasis id="B92AB230C01AFFD3FC42CC58DCA7EC60" box="[917,1022,836,860]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="325">A. repens</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
cords may be dispersive bodies of
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<emphasis id="B92AB230C01AFFD3FA53CC58DFBBEC43" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="325">A. citrina</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. This hypothesis was reinforced by the fact that
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<emphasis id="B92AB230C01AFFD3FD29CC74DC3EECBC" box="[766,871,872,896]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="325">A. repens</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
spicules in
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were even longer that those of
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<emphasis id="B92AB230C01AFFD3FF40CC90DE5CEC98" box="[151,261,908,932]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="325">A. citrina</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, which usually has the longest spicules of all
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<emphasis id="B92AB230C01AFFD3FCF0CC90DC2AEC98" box="[807,883,908,932]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="325">Agelas</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in several localities (
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). At any rate, the hypothesis of close relatedness between
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<emphasis id="B92AB230C01AFFD3FD89CCACDD9EECF4" box="[606,711,944,968]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="325">A. repens</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="B92AB230C01AFFD3FD29CCACDC31ECFB" box="[766,872,944,967]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="325">A. citrina</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was discarded in the light of DNA studies (Parra-
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)
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
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