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<emphasis bold="true" box="[151,436,1517,1543]" italics="true" pageId="167" pageNumber="168">Cervicornia cuspidifera</emphasis>
(
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<paragraph blockId="167.[151,651,1517,1577]" box="[151,324,1552,1577]" pageId="167" pageNumber="168">Figures 105ad</paragraph>
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<emphasis box="[151,397,1624,1646]" italics="true" pageId="167" pageNumber="168">Alcyonium cuspidiferum</emphasis>
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<emphasis box="[151,390,1654,1676]" italics="true" pageId="167" pageNumber="168">Spirastrella cuspidifera</emphasis>
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: 41
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: 117
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, pl. 15 fig. 3, text-fig. 130 (Not:
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<emphasis box="[959,1122,1686,1707]" italics="true" pageId="167" pageNumber="168">Prianos tierneyi</emphasis>
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, fig. 10 =
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<emphasis box="[151,431,1747,1769]" italics="true" pageId="167" pageNumber="168">Spheciospongia cuspidifera</emphasis>
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: 94
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, figs 2223;
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Vicente
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1991
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: 217
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;
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: 1393
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<emphasis box="[151,393,1777,1799]" italics="true" pageId="167" pageNumber="168">Cervicornia cuspidifera</emphasis>
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: 342
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; Rützler 2002: 174, figs 12; Muricy
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2011: 64.
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examined.
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Por. 6306,
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, Luymes
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Shelf Expedition, station 107,
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, muddy sand bottom with shells,
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;
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Por. 9815,
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, Luymes
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Shelf Expedition, station 68,
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, muddy sand bottom,
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, Luymes
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Shelf Expedition, station 87,
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<collectingDate box="[229,436,1988,2013]" pageId="167" pageNumber="168" value="1970-09-02">2 September 1970</collectingDate>
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.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[151,306,1709,1731]" pageId="168" pageNumber="169">FIGURE 105.</emphasis>
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(Lamarck
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,
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<th box="[806,1059,1709,1731]" gridcol="2" gridrow="0" pageId="168" pageNumber="169">habitus of RMNH Por.</th>
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<th box="[151,691,1740,1762]" gridcol="0" gridrow="1" pageId="168" pageNumber="169">microscopic image of peripheral skeleton, cd, SEM</th>
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Hollow fingershaped sponges (Fig. 105a) protruding from a broader body mass buried in the sediment. The protruding fingers are closed at the apex.
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apparent oscules. One of the specimens (Fig. 105a) is
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in diameter, without base, a second is
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high,
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in diameter from a fragmented base of 5
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x
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cm. Color in alcohol orange-brown or dark red-brown (from the discolored label the color of the latter specimen has likely been influenced by being part of a sample containing a verongid species). Surface smooth, but a feeling of friction is felt upon touch. Consistency firm.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,302,151,176]" pageId="169" pageNumber="170">Skeleton</emphasis>
. (Fig. 105b) At the surface the skeleton consists of erect brushes of tylostyles (pointed ends outward) surrounding open spaces covered by a membrane in which microscleres are crowded. Choanosomal skeleton a largely confused mass of tylostyles, consisting of a mixture of loose spicules and short bundles.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,304,260,285]" pageId="169" pageNumber="170">Spicules.</emphasis>
(Figs 105cd) Tylostyles, spirasters.
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<paragraph blockId="169.[151,1436,151,680]" pageId="169" pageNumber="170">
Tylostyles (Figs. 105c,c1) curved, with faint tyles, characteristically with the pointed ends bluntly rounded, in a large size range but not divisible in size categories, 297
<emphasis box="[804,846,332,356]" italics="true" pageId="169" pageNumber="170">432</emphasis>
564
<date box="[909,957,332,356]" pageId="169" pageNumber="170" value="2010-10">x 10</date>
<emphasis box="[972,1021,332,356]" italics="true" pageId="169" pageNumber="170">12.2</emphasis>
15 µm.
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<paragraph blockId="169.[151,1436,151,680]" pageId="169" pageNumber="170">
Spirasters (Figs 105d), short, curved usually once, with the shaft provided with composite spines concentrated on the ends and on the outer curve, inner curve usually smooth or with low spines; rarely curved 1½ times; occasionally straight, not curved and then provided with spines along the shaft; 13
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19 µm.
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<paragraph blockId="169.[151,1436,151,680]" pageId="169" pageNumber="170">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,507,476,501]" pageId="169" pageNumber="170">Distribution and ecology.</emphasis>
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Shelf,
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,
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,
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, NE
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,
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depth (
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Shelf
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).
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<subSubSection pageId="169" pageNumber="170" type="discussion">
<paragraph blockId="169.[151,1436,151,680]" pageId="169" pageNumber="170">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,315,548,573]" pageId="169" pageNumber="170">Remarks.</emphasis>
The present specimens are singular and undivided fingers, not branching at the periphery and/or proliferating, like in many specimens shown in previous studies. Also the diversity of spirasters is less than shown in e.g. Rützler (2002). Despite these discrepancies, it is clear that the
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specimens fall within the observed variation of this common sandy bottom species.
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