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(
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AC)
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.
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Por. 21064,
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, Karpata,
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-
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, under rubble,
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, 1987, coll. H.G.J. Pennartz #5.
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(not belonging to the
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series).
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, Karpata,
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-
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, under rubble,
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(
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, Punt Vierkant,
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, under rubble,
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(
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);
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, Red Slave,
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-
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, under rubble,
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; all observed by H.G.J. Pennartz &amp; G.J. Roebers.
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<emphasis id="B91DEAB4AE6FFFE5FF4DFBC6D92AFB19" bold="true" box="[197,342,1141,1167]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Description</emphasis>
. Thin smooth crust, size
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, thickness less than
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(
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C). Color dark brown with purple veins; interiorly the sponge is orangebrown. Pigment grains in the lighter parts of the surface form areolae-like formations of approx. 100 µm in diameter. Consistency soft.
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<emphasis id="B91DEAB4AE6FFFE5FF4DFB5BD948FA94" bold="true" box="[197,308,1256,1282]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Skeleton</emphasis>
. Feebly developed bundles of megascleres traverse the choanosome vertically ending at and pushing up the surface to cause microconules. No tangential surface skeleton.
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<emphasis id="B91DEAB4AE6FFFE5FF4DFA85D957FAC6" bold="true" box="[197,299,1334,1360]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Spicules</emphasis>
. Strongyles only, no further spicules.
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Strongyles (
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AB), straight, isodiametric, with evenly rounded (not swollen) apices, often with wide axial cavity, 213-
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-277
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-
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-4.5 µm.
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<emphasis id="B91DEAB4AE6FFFE5FF4DFA19D95AFA52" bold="true" box="[197,294,1450,1476]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Ecology</emphasis>
. Under coral rubble at
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<emphasis id="B91DEAB4AE6FFFE5FF4DFA63D936FA7C" bold="true" box="[197,330,1488,1514]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Etymology</emphasis>
.
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= brown.
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<emphasis id="B91DEAB4AE6FFFE5FF4DFA44D944F987" bold="true" box="[197,312,1527,1553]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Remarks</emphasis>
. The mottled aspect of the surface reminds of specimens of
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<emphasis id="B91DEAB4AE6FFFE5FB87FA4BDCB0F987" box="[1039,1228,1528,1553]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Strongylodesma</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFF84B57AE6FFFE5FB5DFA4BDD18F984" author="Levi" box="[1237,1380,1528,1554]" pageId="18" pageNumber="38" refString="Levi, C. (1969) Spongiaires du Vema Seamount (Atlantique Sud). Bulletin du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, (2) 41 (4), 952 - 973." type="journal article" year="1969">Lévi (1969)</bibRefCitation>
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(see e.g.
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Samaai
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. 2004
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), so it was carefully verified whether the strongyles were also arranged tangentially as is the case in species of
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<emphasis id="B91DEAB4AE6FFFE5FE4CF9F6DAFBF9C8" box="[452,647,1605,1630]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Strongylodesma</emphasis>
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. However, strongyles were only found in choanosomal bundles perpendicular to the surface, which consisted only of an organic membrane. One other species is known from the Central West Atlantic,
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<emphasis id="B91DEAB4AE6FFFE5FE5DF920DA44F93A" box="[469,568,1683,1708]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">B. rosea</emphasis>
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van
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, differing from the new species in color (rosy red) and presence of characteristic looped malformations of the strongyles found in that species.
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<emphasis id="B91DEAB4AE6FFFE5FB4FF90ADD50F944" box="[1223,1324,1721,1746]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">B. rosea</emphasis>
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was also observed to occur under
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rubble stones (Pennartz &amp; Roebers, unpubl. data) and could be easily distinguished from the new species.
<taxonomicName id="4C694D25AE6FFFE5FDD4F8B4DBE5F8B6" box="[604,921,1799,1824]" class="Demospongiae" family="Chondropsidae" genus="Strongylacidon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Poecilosclerida" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" phylum="Porifera" rank="species" species="bermudae">
<emphasis id="B91DEAB4AE6FFFE5FDD4F8B4DBE5F8B6" box="[604,921,1799,1824]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Strongylacidon bermudae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(de
<bibRefCitation id="EFF84B57AE6FFFE5FC5AF8B5DCD4F8B6" author="Laubenfels" box="[978,1192,1798,1824]" pageId="18" pageNumber="38" refString="Laubenfels, M. W. de (1950) The Porifera of the Bermuda Archipelago. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, 27 (1), 1 - 154." type="journal article" year="1950">Laubenfels, 1950</bibRefCitation>
as
<taxonomicName id="4C694D25AE6FFFE5FB5BF8B4DD52F8B6" box="[1235,1326,1799,1824]" class="Demospongiae" family="Dendoricellidae" genus="Fibulia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Poecilosclerida" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" phylum="Porifera" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B91DEAB4AE6FFFE5FB5BF8B4DD52F8B6" box="[1235,1326,1799,1824]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Fibulia</emphasis>
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), having strongyles of 180200 µm and lacking microscleres, in addition to being dark colored, may be reminiscent of the new species, but it is a large species with tubes of
<quantity id="4C919B43AE6FFFE5FCCEF8E7DBEFF8F8" box="[838,915,1876,1902]" metricMagnitude="-1" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.2" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" unit="cm" value="12.0">12 cm</quantity>
height, quite unlike the thin encrustation described here (cf.
<bibRefCitation id="EFF84B57AE6FFFE5FE08F8C8DA55F803" author="Rutzler" box="[384,553,1915,1941]" pageId="18" pageNumber="39" refString="Rutzler, K. (1986) Phylum Porifera (Sponges). Pp. 111 - 126, In: W. Sterrer (Ed.) Marine Fauna and Flora of Bermuda. John Wiley &amp; Sons, New York, i - xxx, 1 - 742." type="book chapter" year="1986">Rützler, 1986</bibRefCitation>
). The strongyles are also neatly smaller than
<taxonomicName id="4C694D25AE6FFFE5FBC6F8C8DC85F802" box="[1102,1273,1915,1940]" class="Demospongiae" family="Chondropsidae" genus="Batzella" kingdom="Animalia" order="Poecilosclerida" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" phylum="Porifera" rank="species" species="fusca" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="B91DEAB4AE6FFFE5FBC6F8C8DC85F802" box="[1102,1273,1915,1940]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Batzella fusca</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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<emphasis id="B91DEAB4AE6FFFE5FA89F8C9DD3AF802" bold="true" box="[1281,1350,1914,1940]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">n. sp.</emphasis>
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and
<taxonomicName id="4C694D25AE6FFFE5FA0AF8C8D8AAF82C" class="Demospongiae" family="Chondropsidae" genus="Batzella" kingdom="Animalia" order="Poecilosclerida" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" phylum="Porifera" rank="species" species="rosea">
<emphasis id="B91DEAB4AE6FFFE5FA0AF8C8D8AAF82C" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">B. rosea</emphasis>
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, without overlap.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BD636A6AE6EFFE4FF4EFF2BDA04FF4E" blockId="19.[151,1436,152,216]" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">
The
<taxonomicName id="4C694D25AE6EFFE4FE88FF2BD91CFF27" box="[256,352,152,177]" class="Demospongiae" family="Chondropsidae" genus="Batzella" kingdom="Animalia" order="Poecilosclerida" pageId="19" pageNumber="20" phylum="Porifera" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B91DEAB4AE6EFFE4FE88FF2BD91CFF27" box="[256,352,152,177]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Batzella</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
species of the Central West Atlantic are keyed out along with the species of the genus
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<emphasis id="B91DEAB4AE6EFFE4FF1FFF0CD934FF4E" box="[151,328,191,216]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="20">Strongylacidon</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in a key presented below.
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