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<emphasis bold="true" box="[151,379,976,1002]" italics="true" pageId="180" pageNumber="181">Axinyssa ambrosia</emphasis>
(
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ab
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<emphasis box="[151,355,1082,1104]" italics="true" pageId="180" pageNumber="181">Rhaphisia ambrosia</emphasis>
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<taxonomicName box="[151,342,1113,1135]" class="Demospongiae" family="Halichondriidae" genus="Axinyssa" kingdom="Animalia" order="Halichondrida" pageId="180" pageNumber="181" phylum="Porifera" rank="species" species="ambrosia">
<emphasis box="[151,342,1113,1135]" italics="true" pageId="180" pageNumber="181">Axinyssa ambrosia</emphasis>
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;
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<bibRefCitation author="Diaz" box="[355,520,1113,1135]" pageId="180" pageNumber="181" refString="Diaz, M. C., Pomponi, S. A. &amp; Van Soest, R. W. M. (1993) A systematic revision of the central West Atlantic Halichondrida (Demospongiae, Porifera). Part III: Description of valid species. In: Uriz, M. - J. &amp; Rutzler, K. (Eds.), Recent Advances in Ecology and Systematics of Sponges. Scientia Marina, 57 (4), 283 - 306." type="journal article" year="1993">
Díaz
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1993
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: 289
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, figs 5, 10;
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Zea
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2013
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: 495
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, figs 1, 3AC.
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examined.
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Por. 9331,
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, Luymes
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Shelf Expedition, station 65,
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, depth
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, sandy bottom,
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<collectingDate box="[599,782,1216,1240]" pageId="180" pageNumber="181" value="1970-08-31">31 August 1970</collectingDate>
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;
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<collectionCode box="[795,879,1216,1239]" country="Netherlands" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34992" name="National Museum of Natural History, Naturalis" pageId="180" pageNumber="181">RMNH</collectionCode>
Por. 9999,
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,
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Shelf Expedition, station F45,
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, depth
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<elevation box="[818,877,1252,1276]" metricMagnitude="1" metricUnit="m" metricValue="3.4" pageId="180" pageNumber="181" unit="m" value="34.0">34 m</elevation>
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,
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grab,
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.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,345,1287,1312]" pageId="180" pageNumber="181">Description.</emphasis>
Three lobate-digitate fragments (
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a), presumably the upper parts of sponges partially buried in the sand, and two parallel developed, elongate cylindrical specimens (
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a1). Size of digitate fragments
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high,
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in diameter, of cylindrical specimens
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long,
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in diameter. Color (alcohol) pale orange-beige. Surface irregular, but optically smooth, somewhat ridged and grooved.
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apparent oscules. Consistency firm to hard.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,309,1468,1493]" pageId="180" pageNumber="181">Skeleton.</emphasis>
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ectosomal specialization. The choanosomal skeleton is confused but shows arrangement of the spicules in tracts directed towards the surface.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,304,1540,1565]" pageId="180" pageNumber="181">Spicules.</emphasis>
Oxeas only.
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Oxeas (
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b,b1) fusiform, sharply pointed, lightly curved, in a large size range, but not divisible in size categories, 618
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954
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<emphasis box="[502,551,1612,1636]" italics="true" pageId="180" pageNumber="181">25.2</emphasis>
34 µm.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,503,1647,1672]" pageId="180" pageNumber="181">Distribution and ecology.</emphasis>
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Shelf,
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,
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,
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,
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, reefs and sand, at
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depth (Gyana Shelf
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).
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<subSubSection pageId="180" pageNumber="181" type="discussion">
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,315,1719,1744]" pageId="180" pageNumber="181">Remarks.</emphasis>
The present specimens conform to the description of
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<emphasis box="[945,1160,1719,1744]" italics="true" pageId="180" pageNumber="181">Axinyssa ambrosia</emphasis>
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as given by
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Díaz
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(1993)
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, who also assigned
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<emphasis box="[456,668,1756,1781]" italics="true" pageId="180" pageNumber="181">Dictyonella yumae</emphasis>
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as a junior synonym. Subsequently,
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Zea
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2013
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revised both species and concluded that there are small differences between the two and that they are distinct species. In their analysis they restricted the spicule sizes of
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to 490941 x 4.823.8 µm. The
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shelf material has slight larger and thicker oxeas (up to 954
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µm), but these fall short of the sizes quoted by
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Zea
<emphasis box="[324,382,1900,1925]" italics="true" pageId="180" pageNumber="181">et al.</emphasis>
2013
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for
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<emphasis box="[497,678,1900,1924]" italics="true" pageId="180" pageNumber="181">Axinyssa yumae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(up to
<date box="[764,842,1900,1924]" pageId="180" pageNumber="181" value="1121-10">1121 x</date>
37.4 µm). Although there are a few fusiform styles among the spicules of the present specimens, they are infrequent. In conclusion, the identity of the
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material is most likely to be
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<emphasis box="[371,507,1972,1997]" italics="true" pageId="180" pageNumber="181">A. ambrosia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and not
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<emphasis box="[604,708,1972,1996]" italics="true" pageId="180" pageNumber="181">A. yumae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
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