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(
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AC)
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Selected synonymy:
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; van
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:71.
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.
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1413 Alacranes reef (
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) depth
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. Thinly encrusting a dead coral,
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A). The sponge surface is strongly conulose, with long and acute conules
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high, and reinforced by a neat reticulation of sand grains embedded in a very thin ectosome in which pores are included. It is of black color in life and deep purple in alcohol, leaving a reddish-purple exudate in alcohol.
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<emphasis id="B9666F4D607EFFCDFF04D6938021B8C4" bold="true" box="[199,302,1433,1458]" pageId="27" pageNumber="178">Skeleton</emphasis>
. The ectosomal skeleton is a delicate, rounded network composed of sand grains embedded in tracts, 1650 µm thick, arranged in a regular mesh pattern 160270 µm wide (
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B). The choanosomal skeleton consists of dendritic fibres, 60140 µm in width (
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C), of the same color as the exudate; these appear to be pithed but the sheathed fibres typical of the family produce this effect (van
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).
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<emphasis id="B9666F4D607EFFCDFF04D52380FBBB34" bold="true" box="[199,500,1577,1602]" pageId="27" pageNumber="178">Distribution and ecology</emphasis>
.
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,
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(van
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) and eastern Mediterranean (
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); probably
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(
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Hajdu
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2011
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). This is the first record for the Gulf of
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and Mexican coast.
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. Specimens assigned to
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from the western Atlantic awaits thorough revision, due to the difficulty to discern
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<emphasis id="B9666F4D607EFFCDFE2ED59C835DBBDB" box="[493,594,1686,1709]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="178">C. erecta</emphasis>
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, from eastern Mediterranean (
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) from another form found in the Red Sea (Row 1911, as
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). These two homonym names need to be reviewed to determine if they represent the same or different species. For the moment, only one undisputed
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species has been reported in the western Atlantic, viz.
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<emphasis id="B9666F4D607EFFCDFD87D4088358BA6F" box="[580,599,1794,1817]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="178">C</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B9666F4D607EFFCDFDA4D40B83D8BA6C" box="[615,727,1793,1818]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="178">betinensis</emphasis>
Zea
</taxonomicName>
&amp; van Soest 1986. Specimens recorded in
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lack the ectosomal fiber network composed of sand grains (Alcolado 2002), which is a characteristic feature of
<taxonomicName id="4C12C8DC607EFFCDFF54D4438047BA14" box="[151,328,1865,1890]" class="Demospongiae" family="Darwinellidae" genus="Chelonaplysilla" kingdom="Animalia" order="Dendroceratida" pageId="27" pageNumber="178" phylum="Porifera" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B9666F4D607EFFCDFF54D4438047BA14" box="[151,328,1865,1890]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="178">Chelonaplysilla</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
cf
<taxonomicName id="4C12C8DC607EFFCDFEA8D44080BFBA17" box="[363,432,1866,1889]" class="Demospongiae" family="Darwinellidae" genus="Chelonaplysilla" kingdom="Animalia" order="Dendroceratida" pageId="27" pageNumber="178" phylum="Porifera" rank="species" species="erecta">
<emphasis id="B9666F4D607EFFCDFEA8D44080BFBA17" box="[363,432,1866,1889]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="178">erecta</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, most probably because they were collected from mangrove roots close to the sea surface.
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