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<emphasis id="B923EAD36709FF9DFEB5FD8FBC4AEC65" bold="true" box="[264,591,521,547]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Strongylodesma algoaensis</emphasis>
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D, 5E, 6D)
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material.
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1996.7.3.3: Algoa Bay, Port Elizabeth,
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,
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, collected by P. Coetzee, University of Port Elizabeth,
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,
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material.
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4964: Algoa Bay, Port Elizabeth,
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, collected by Dr P. Coetzee, University of Port Elizabeth,
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Spherical to semispherical sponge, up to
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high and
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wide (
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D). Texture soft, compressible, fleshy. Surface smooth, with numerous scattered large vase­shaped membranous oscules, 2
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x
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wide and high, and fungiform areolate porefields
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high and
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wide. Sand particles are present in the sponge surface. Exterior and interior colour in life oak brown, in ethanol, dark chocolate brown. Contain biologically­active pyrroloquilonine alkaloids, discorhabdins A, D &amp; H and 3­dihydrodiscorhabdins (M. Davies­Coleman pers. comm. 2001).
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<emphasis id="B923EAD36709FF9DFE85FB8ABC6CEA60" bold="true" box="[312,617,1036,1062]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Spicules. Megascleres —</emphasis>
Anisostrongyles (
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D): smooth, with a distinctive axial canal, 328 (307355)
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(7.29.6) m.
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<emphasis id="B923EAD36709FF9DFE85FBDABFAFEA30" bold="true" box="[312,426,1116,1142]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Skeleton.</emphasis>
The choanosomal skeleton consists of an irregular polygonal­meshed reticulation of wispy tracts of anisostrongyles approximately
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thick (
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E). Towards the surface the tracts are perpendicular to the surface of the sponge, diverging just beneath the ectosome into fine plumose brushes
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thick. The subectosome is composed of a loose feltwork of paratangential anisostrongyles approximately
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deep, above which these spicules become erect or oblique and pierce the surface. Anisostrongyles form a compact palisade around the opening of the papillae.
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<emphasis id="B923EAD36709FF9DFE85FAF2BFA4EBC8" bold="true" box="[312,417,1396,1422]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Ecology.</emphasis>
Moderately rugged rocky bottom, patches of sand between rocks, together with coral and other sponges,
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.
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<emphasis id="B923EAD36709FF9DFE85FA42BFC1EB98" bold="true" box="[312,452,1476,1502]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Etymology.</emphasis>
Named for Algoa Bay, Port Elizabeth, the location of discovery for this new species.
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<emphasis id="B923EAD36709FF9DFE85F992BFB4E868" bold="true" box="[312,433,1556,1582]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Remarks.</emphasis>
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is very similar to species of
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in the field, with areolate porefields, a soft, inflated, compressible texture, and typical brownish colouration. It is only at the histological level that the genus and this species is distinguishable, by a lack of microscleres.
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<emphasis id="B923EAD36709FF9DFE85F932BC7CE88B" box="[312,633,1716,1741]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Strongylodesma algoaensis</emphasis>
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differs from the genus
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<taxonomicName id="4C574D426709FF9DFBD7F932BB2EE888" authority="Levi" authorityName="Levi" box="[1130,1323,1716,1742]" class="Demospongiae" family="Latrunculiidae" genus="Strongylodesma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Poecilosclerida" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" phylum="Porifera" rank="species" species="areolata">
<emphasis id="B923EAD36709FF9DFBD7F932BAEEE88B" box="[1130,1259,1716,1741]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">S. areolata</emphasis>
Lévi
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by the larger size of the megascleres ((299 (282319)
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(57) um in the
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MNHN VEM 131­DCL 1425), and in the possession of smooth strongyles (as opposed to faintly terminally spined strongyles in the
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). The subectosomal skeleton of the
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is a clear band of collagenous mesohyl
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thick, the base of which is a thin band of paratangential strongyles (
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deep) (see Samaai and Kelly, 2002; Samaai, 2002). This clear region is absent in
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<emphasis id="B923EAD36716FF82FDDEFEC2BCF8EF1B" box="[611,765,324,349]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">S. algoaensis</emphasis>
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.. The areolate porefields of
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<emphasis id="B923EAD36716FF82FB18FEC2BF22EFC3" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">S. algoaensis</emphasis>
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are fungiform while those of the
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are flat and circular or elliptical.
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