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<taxonomicName authority="Van Soest, Meesters &amp; Becking, 2014" authorityName="Van Soest, Meesters &amp; Becking" authorityYear="2014" box="[151,949,1395,1421]" class="Demospongiae" family="Pachastrellidae" genus="Characella" kingdom="Animalia" order="Astrophorida" pageId="100" pageNumber="101" phylum="Porifera" rank="species" species="poecillastroides">
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[151,479,1395,1421]" italics="true" pageId="100" pageNumber="101">Characella poecillastroides</emphasis>
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ag
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<emphasis box="[151,432,1498,1520]" italics="true" pageId="100" pageNumber="101">Characella poecillastroides</emphasis>
Van Soest
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, 2014: 410
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, figs 6ad, 7ae.
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examined.
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Por. 9822,
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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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Two fragments of a flattened sponge (
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a), overall size 11 x 7
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x
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cm. Surface smooth where not overgrown by a other sponges, but rough and hard in exposed places. Color in alcohol yellowish beige.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,309,1701,1726]" pageId="100" pageNumber="101">Skeleton.</emphasis>
Ectosomal skeleton with a crust of acanthomicroxeas, carried by bundles of long oxeas and confusedly arranged plagiotriaenes. Choanosome with confused mass of spicules. The surface bears a crust of
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cf.
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(see above).
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,304,1805,1830]" pageId="100" pageNumber="101">Spicules.</emphasis>
(
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bg) Oxeas, plagiotriaenes, amphiasters, acanthomicroxeas.
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Oxeas (
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b,b1) fusiform, curved, rather abruptly pointed, quite variable in length,
<date box="[1216,1342,1839,1864]" pageId="100" pageNumber="101" value="1350" valueMax="1943">
1350
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2450
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<emphasis box="[193,242,1875,1899]" italics="true" pageId="100" pageNumber="101">55.2</emphasis>
71 µm.
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Plagiotriaenes (
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c), short-shafted, but usually the rhabd and the cladi are distinct, rhabdomes 294
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520
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36 µm, cladomes 288
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390 µm, cladi 126
<emphasis box="[968,1010,1944,1968]" italics="true" pageId="100" pageNumber="101">185</emphasis>
234
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<emphasis box="[1136,1185,1944,1969]" italics="true" pageId="100" pageNumber="101">26.2</emphasis>
30 µm,
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Amphiasters (
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d), with relatively robust and finely spined rays, overall diameter 16
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21 µm.
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Acanthomicroxeas (
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eg), in two to three size categories, (1) larger (
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e,e1) 210256282
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6.5 µm, (2) intermediate (
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f), rare (n=4) 76172
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µm and (3) small (
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Fig.
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g) 34
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<date box="[1384,1436,151,176]" pageId="101" pageNumber="102" value="1951-10">51 x</date>
2.5
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3.5 µm.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[151,288,1237,1259]" pageId="101" pageNumber="102">FIGURE 62.</emphasis>
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<emphasis box="[294,575,1236,1258]" italics="true" pageId="101" pageNumber="102">Characella poecillastroides</emphasis>
Van Soest, Meesters &amp; Becking, 2014
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, a, habitus of RMNH Por. 9822 (scale bar = 1 cm), bg, SEM images of spicules, b, oxea, b1, details of b, c, plagiotriaene, d, amphiaster, e, large acanthomicroxea, e1, details of e, f, intermediate acanthomicroxea, g, small acanthomicroxea.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,498,1359,1384]" pageId="101" pageNumber="102">Distribution and ecology.</emphasis>
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Shelf,
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, sandy and rocky bottoms at
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depth.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,315,1394,1419]" pageId="101" pageNumber="102">Remarks.</emphasis>
The fragments reported here are closely similar in habit and spicules to the
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. The plagiotriaenes are slightly smaller and there is a rare middle-sized acanthomicroxea (70170 µm), which is not reported from the
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.
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The surface is encrusted by what appears to be a
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<emphasis box="[741,901,1498,1523]" italics="true" pageId="101" pageNumber="102">Parahigginsia</emphasis>
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rather similar to what was recently described as
<taxonomicName box="[151,322,1532,1557]" class="Demospongiae" family="Heteroxyidae" genus="Parahigginsia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Halichondrida" pageId="101" pageNumber="102" phylum="Porifera" rank="species" species="strongylifera">
<emphasis box="[151,322,1532,1557]" italics="true" pageId="101" pageNumber="102">P. strongylifera</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, because of the possession of the characteristic acanthomicroxeas with thin erect spines. See above for a description and discussion. Remarkably, instead of strongyles, the spicules are thickly fusiform oxeas arranged in a confused reticulation. These spicules are also shorter, 171204
<date box="[1020,1098,1602,1626]" pageId="101" pageNumber="102" value="2014-10-09">x 914</date>
µm than the strongyles of the
<typeStatus box="[151,199,1637,1661]" pageId="101" pageNumber="102">type</typeStatus>
(290370
<date box="[321,413,1637,1661]" pageId="101" pageNumber="102" value="2010-10-18">x 1018</date>
µm). It remains to be decided whether the present encrustation falls within the variation of
<taxonomicName box="[151,322,1671,1696]" class="Demospongiae" family="Heteroxyidae" genus="Parahigginsia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Halichondrida" pageId="101" pageNumber="102" phylum="Porifera" rank="species" species="strongylifera">
<emphasis box="[151,322,1671,1696]" italics="true" pageId="101" pageNumber="102">P. strongylifera</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="101.[151,1436,1359,1869]" pageId="101" pageNumber="102">
Puerto Rican
<taxonomicName authority="De Laubenfels, 1934" authorityName="De Laubenfels" authorityYear="1934" box="[350,793,1706,1731]" class="Demospongiae" family="Pachastrellidae" genus="Characella" kingdom="Animalia" order="Astrophorida" pageId="101" pageNumber="102" phylum="Porifera" rank="species" species="enae">
<emphasis box="[350,536,1706,1731]" italics="true" pageId="101" pageNumber="102">Characella enae</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation author="De" box="[550,785,1706,1731]" pageId="101" pageNumber="102" refString="De Laubenfels, M. W. (1934) New sponges from the Puerto Rican Deep. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 91, 1 - 28." type="journal article" year="1934">De Laubenfels, 1934</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
(as
<taxonomicName box="[839,959,1706,1731]" class="Demospongiae" family="Pachastrellidae" genus="Neothenea" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Tetractinellida" pageId="101" pageNumber="102" phylum="Porifera" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[839,959,1706,1731]" italics="true" pageId="101" pageNumber="102">Neothenea</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, p. 5), (
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specimen
<collectionCode box="[1212,1293,1706,1730]" country="USA" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34871" name="Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History" pageId="101" pageNumber="102">USNM</collectionCode>
22321, slide re-examined), shows a general similarity to
<taxonomicName box="[657,870,1740,1765]" class="Demospongiae" family="Pachastrellidae" genus="Characella" kingdom="Animalia" order="Astrophorida" pageId="101" pageNumber="102" phylum="Porifera" rank="species" species="poecillastroides">
<emphasis box="[657,870,1740,1765]" italics="true" pageId="101" pageNumber="102">C. poecillastroides</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. It has a flabellate shape, but its megascleres are consistently much longer and thicker than those of
<taxonomicName box="[718,928,1775,1800]" class="Demospongiae" family="Pachastrellidae" genus="Characella" kingdom="Animalia" order="Astrophorida" pageId="101" pageNumber="102" phylum="Porifera" rank="species" species="poecillastroides">
<emphasis box="[718,928,1775,1800]" italics="true" pageId="101" pageNumber="102">C. poecillastroides</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
: oxeas up to
<quantity box="[1075,1153,1776,1800]" metricMagnitude="-2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.2" pageId="101" pageNumber="102" unit="mm" value="12.0">12 mm</quantity>
x 106 µm, plagiotriaenes and dichotriaenes (not found in
<taxonomicName box="[507,717,1810,1835]" class="Demospongiae" family="Pachastrellidae" genus="Characella" kingdom="Animalia" order="Astrophorida" pageId="101" pageNumber="102" phylum="Porifera" rank="species" species="poecillastroides">
<emphasis box="[507,717,1810,1835]" italics="true" pageId="101" pageNumber="102">C. poecillastroides</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
) with cladi similarly up to 100 µm in thickness, amphiasters are 2530 µm and acanthomicroxeas show less differentiation in size categories.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
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