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. Tiny specimen encrusting on calcareous sponge (
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). Life color noted as yellowish, pale beige in preservation. Size
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ab). Feebly developed due to being a small specimen. Plumose choanosomal tracts of
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diameter (34 spicules in cross section) and single megascleres, forming meshes of about
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cg). Megascleres, two categories of anisochelae, sigmas, toxas.
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Megascleres (
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) are anisotylote and anisostrongylote forms, with slightly unequal swollen rounded ends on both sides, straight or curved, sometimes slightly sinuous, 401
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Anisochelae I (
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), well-developed, with curved shaft, overall shape similar to those of
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, cf. above, but smaller, 23
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Anisochelae II (
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), similar to anisochelae I, but less well-developed and distinctly smaller, 15
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Sigmas I (
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), approximately symmetrical, thickness about
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, with curvature of both endings provided with a series of flattened spines, clearly larger in size than above treated
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Toxas (
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Fig.
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), in dragmas or occasionally single, similar in shape to those of
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, on reefs, down to
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<emphasis id="8CCDEAA3FF6EFF0B55FBFB60515EC9CA" bold="true" box="[199,308,1221,1247]" pageId="171" pageNumber="172">Remarks</emphasis>
. The present material is close to
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but differs clearly in (1) shape of the megascleres which lack the polyaxone ending, (2) the size of the anisochelae I (
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), and (3) size of the serrated sigmas (6387 vs
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). Less important differences are the more robust choanosomal tracts and the lack of toxodragmas in
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A further closely related species appears to be
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(
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, likewise apparently only known from tiny specimens, which has similar spiculation including toxas. A distinct difference with the new species is that the
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has commonplace mycalostyles with pointed endings and much smaller size (175 x
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); toxas (in dragmas like our specimen) are
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.
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East Pacific
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as redescribed recently by Carballo &amp; Cruz-Barraza (2010) differs clearly from the new species in having a second smaller category of sigmas, and its sigmas I and toxas are distinctly larger (
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and 4263 respectively).
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It is possible that
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record of a
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spec. from Salomon Island (Chagos,
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) is a member of the new species, but only a large serrated sigma is known for it. Similarly,
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record of
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sp. 2 appears a potential member of the new species, with the main difference being bundled raphides of
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, lacking in our tiny specimen.
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<emphasis id="8CCDEAA3FF69FF0C55ABF8C8514FCA90" bold="true" box="[151,293,1901,1925]" pageId="172" pageNumber="173">FIGURE 112</emphasis>
.
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, holotype ZMA Por. 12658, from Amirantes, Seychelles, ab, light microscopic images of the skeleton, a, ectosomal skeleton, b, detail showing megascleres, rosettes of anisochelae I, and various microscleres (including toxodragmas), cg, SEM images of spicules, c, anisotylote megasclere, c1, details of the megasclere, d, anisochelae I in front view (left) and side view (right), e,
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, f, serrated sigma, f1, detail of serrated sigma, g, toxa.
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Additional species of
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from the region
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