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<emphasis bold="true" box="[151,448,1877,1903]" italics="true" pageId="185" pageNumber="186">Topsentia ophiraphidites</emphasis>
(
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ae
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Restricted synonymy:
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.
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<emphasis box="[151,403,182,205]" italics="true" pageId="186" pageNumber="187">Topsentia ophiraphidites</emphasis>
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;
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Díaz
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1993
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: 290
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, figs 6, 12 (with further synonyms and records).
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[151,300,1190,1212]" pageId="186" pageNumber="187">FIGURE 117.</emphasis>
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(De Laubenfels, 1934)
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, a, habitus of RMNH Por. 9827 (scale bar = 1 cm), a1, habitus of RMNH Por. 9303 (scale bar = 1 cm), be, SEM images of the spicules, b, large oxea, b1, details of b, c, middle-sized oxea, c1, details of c, d, small oxea, e, crooked middle-sized oxea.
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Por. 9303,
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Shelf Expedition, station G56,
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, depth
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<elevation box="[454,557,1354,1379]" metricMagnitude="1" metricUnit="m" metricValue="6.75" metricValueMax="6.8" metricValueMin="6.7" pageId="186" pageNumber="187" unit="m" value="67.5" valueMax="68.0" valueMin="67.0">6768 m</elevation>
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, Agassiz trawl,
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;
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Por. 9771, 9827,
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, Luymes
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Shelf Expedition, station 1,
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, depth
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, bottom sandy calcarenite,
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.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,345,1462,1487]" pageId="186" pageNumber="187">Description.</emphasis>
Fistular fragments (
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a), which presumably represent the tops of larger masses that remained uncollected, and one small globular sponge with cut-off projection (
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a1). The fragments are up to
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high,
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at their base,
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at their apices, the globular sponge is
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diameter and high, with the projection
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in diameter. The sponge samples are rather divergent in shape, but spiculation is identical. Color (in alcohol) pale yellowish beige to dark brown. Consistency firm, rough to the touch.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,309,1642,1667]" pageId="186" pageNumber="187">Skeleton.</emphasis>
Largely confused mass of spicules, with vague tracts of the larger spicules running perpendicularly to the surface. Smaller spicules are more frequent at the surface.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,304,1714,1739]" pageId="186" pageNumber="187">Spicules.</emphasis>
(
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be) Oxeas only.
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Oxeas, usually straight or slightly curved, intermediate and smaller oxeas occasionally angularly curved or crooked, in a wide range of shapes and sizes, divisible in overlapping size ranges, (1) large and fat (
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b,b1), fusiform,
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63 µm, (2) intermediate (
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c,c1), with gradually tapering sharp points, some crooked forms occur, 546858
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µm, and (3) small (
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d), likewise with sharp points, including a few crooked forms (
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e), 295452
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µm; overall oxea size 295
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<date box="[1007,1104,1895,1919]" pageId="186" pageNumber="187" value="1348-10-07">1348 x 7</date>
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63 µm.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,507,1930,1955]" pageId="186" pageNumber="187">Distribution and ecology.</emphasis>
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Shelf, Greater Caribbean, NE
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, in a wide depth range,
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(
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Shelf
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).
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,315,2002,2027]" pageId="186" pageNumber="187">Remarks.</emphasis>
The identification is made on the basis of the key to the Central West Atlantic species of
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<emphasis box="[1328,1436,2003,2026]" italics="true" pageId="186" pageNumber="187">Topsentia</emphasis>
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and description in
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Díaz
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(1993)
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. The present material matches their treatment of
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<emphasis box="[1126,1318,151,176]" italics="true" pageId="187" pageNumber="188">T. ophiraphidites</emphasis>
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closely in spiculation and skeletal structure. Specimens of
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<emphasis box="[692,883,188,213]" italics="true" pageId="187" pageNumber="188">T. ophiraphidites</emphasis>
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are known to possess fistular outgrowths and are diverse in size and shape. The depth range of the species, previously known down to
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, is extended here considerably down to
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.
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Two other recognizably described species are present in the region,
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<emphasis box="[951,1111,295,320]" italics="true" pageId="187" pageNumber="188">T. bahamensis</emphasis>
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, which is shaped differently and its spicules do not exceed 800 µm in length, and
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<emphasis box="[1162,1367,332,357]" italics="true" pageId="187" pageNumber="188">T. pseudoporrecta</emphasis>
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, which has coarser texture and spicules up to 1800 µm in length.
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The WPD lists
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<emphasis box="[380,614,404,429]" italics="true" pageId="187" pageNumber="188">Pellina profunditatis</emphasis>
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from
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off Florida as a
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<emphasis box="[1140,1248,405,428]" italics="true" pageId="187" pageNumber="188">Topsentia</emphasis>
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. The encrusting sponge apparently had a skeleton of oxeas of very variable size, the thickness given as 677 µm. This is insufficient to characterize the species. Type material consists of a slide in the BMNH collection, 1870.5.3.102 (source
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, p. 54) and a 70% alcohol specimen in the MCZ collection, reg.nr. PORb- 122. Neither was recently redescribed.
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uses
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<emphasis box="[440,656,583,608]" italics="true" pageId="187" pageNumber="188">Topsentia amorpha</emphasis>
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as a name for a sponge from
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.
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ignored the rules of the
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by not indicating and keeping
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material and his description is unrecognizable. The name is a clear
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and through that is unavailable.
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