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aj
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, pl. X figs. 34, text-fig. 42.
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Díaz
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, figs. 39, 45;
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Castellanos
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2003
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: table 1, footnote d;
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Rützler
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2014
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The three specimens are dissimilar, Por. 9788 (
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a) is a broad knoll or club-shaped sponge of
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. Color dark brown and surface uneven but optically smooth, overgrown with several other encrusting organisms. Por. 9789 (
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f) and 9820 are finger-shaped fragments of maximum
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high and
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diameter, dark colored (probably discolored by verongid specimens in the same catch). Consistency firm.
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The choanosomal skeleton consists of a dense confused mass of oxeas of all sizes, at the periphery of which there is a palisade of small oxeas arranged at right angles to the surface.
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<emphasis id="B9756D147760FF9BFF44A1AD914DFD45" bold="true" box="[199,304,710,735]" pageId="55" pageNumber="56">Spicules.</emphasis>
(
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be,gj) Oxeas, trichodragmas.
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Oxeas, in a wide range of shapes—fusiform, often curved, frequently with an abrupt curve in the middle, sharply pointed or mucronate, occasionally stylote modifications occur, the middle sized and smallest may be lightly or heavily spined—and in a wide size range, divisible in three overlapping categories, (1) largest (
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b,b1 and
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Figs
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g,g1), 664
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978
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39 µm, (2) middle sized (
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c and
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h), 345
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522
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16 µm, and (3) smallest (
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d,d1 and
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Fig.
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i,
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), 111
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360
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14 µm.
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Trichodragmas (
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e and
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j), variably longer and shorter, 40120
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µm, individual raphides less than 1 µm in thickness.
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<emphasis id="B9756D147760FF9BFF44A08D918EFC65" bold="true" box="[199,499,998,1023]" pageId="55" pageNumber="56">Distribution and ecology.</emphasis>
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Shelf,
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,
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,
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depth (
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<emphasis id="B9756D147760FF9BFF44A7459146FBDD" bold="true" box="[199,315,1070,1095]" pageId="55" pageNumber="56">Remarks.</emphasis>
In assigning the present specimens—with hesitation—to
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<emphasis id="B9756D147760FF9BFC74A745949EFBDC" box="[1015,1251,1070,1095]" italics="true" pageId="55" pageNumber="56">Myrmekioderma rea</emphasis>
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we follow the redescription and discussion of the species by
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Díaz
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(1993)
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(p. 303) and
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Rützler
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(2014)
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(p. 72), and the refinement made by Zea in
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Castellanos
<emphasis id="B9756D147760FF9BFDD8A71C92E9FB15" box="[603,660,1142,1167]" italics="true" pageId="55" pageNumber="56">et al.</emphasis>
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(footnote of their table 1). To demonstrate the reason for the hesitation I present the characteristic features of two of the specimens in
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. The shapes, although different in both, are more conforming to
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than other
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species. The smaller oxeas were variably entirely smooth (RMNH Por. 9788) or heavily spined (RMNH Por. 9789 and 9820), the latter possessing both smaller and middle-sized spined oxeas. According to
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Díaz
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(1993)
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this is not uncommon for
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species, as it was documented for
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(
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)
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and the
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species
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<emphasis id="B9756D147760FF9BFF14A62591A1FAFD" box="[151,476,1358,1383]" italics="true" pageId="55" pageNumber="56">Myrmekioderma granulatum</emphasis>
(
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. Stylote modifications were found rather frequently in 9789 but were rare in 9788, not uncommonly reported for other
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<emphasis id="B9756D147760FF9BFD66A61993E3FA11" box="[741,926,1394,1419]" italics="true" pageId="55" pageNumber="56">Myrmekioderma</emphasis>
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species. The trichodragmas were distinctly divisible in a smaller and a larger size category in 9788, but showed a more continuous variation in 9789 and 9820; either condition has been reported for
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<emphasis id="B9756D147760FF9BFDC7A6D792F3FA49" box="[580,654,1468,1491]" italics="true" pageId="55" pageNumber="56">M. rea</emphasis>
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by various authors (
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Díaz
<emphasis id="B9756D147760FF9BFC32A6D79394FA49" box="[945,1001,1466,1491]" italics="true" pageId="55" pageNumber="56">et al.</emphasis>
1993
</bibRefCitation>
;
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). An independent support for the hypothesis that this wide variation is intraspecific is the fact that divergent samples 9788 and 9789 were obtained in the same trawl.
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Two other species,
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<emphasis id="B9756D147760FF9BFE25A54D929FF9A5" box="[422,738,1574,1599]" italics="true" pageId="55" pageNumber="56">Myrmekioderma gyroderma</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EF90CCF77760FF9BFD70A54D93D8F9A5" author="Alcolado" box="[755,933,1574,1599]" pageId="55" pageNumber="56" refString="Alcolado, P. M. (1984) Nuevas especies de esponjas encontradas en Cuba. Poeyana, 271, 1 - 22." type="journal article" year="1984">Alcolado, 1984</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="B9756D147760FF9BFC6BA54D955EF9A5" box="[1000,1315,1574,1599]" italics="true" pageId="55" pageNumber="56">Myrmekioderma laminatum</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EF90CCF77760FF9BFAAFA54D908AF9F9" author="Rutzler" pageId="55" pageNumber="56" refString="Rutzler, K., Piantoni, C., Van Soest, R. W. M. &amp; Diaz, M. C. (2014) Diversity of sponges (Porifera) from cryptic habitats on the Belize barrier reef near Carrie Bow Cay. Zootaxa, 3805 (1), 1 - 129. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3805.1.1" type="journal article" year="2014">
Rützler
<emphasis id="B9756D147760FF9BFA0BA54C90C9F9F9" italics="true" pageId="55" pageNumber="56">et al.</emphasis>
2014
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occur in the Greater Caribbean. The first occurs on shallow-water reefs and has distinct meandering surface grooves that remain visible in preserved condition, the second occurs in reef cavities, is encrusting and has overall thinner spicules.
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