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<emphasis id="B91DEAB4AE70FFFAFF1FFA71D9DEFA4A" bold="true" box="[151,418,1474,1500]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Megaciella incrustans</emphasis>
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(
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AE)
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Por. 21063,
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, Santa
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,
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,
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, coll. M. Rozemeijer &amp; W. Dulfer.
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. Thinly encrusting patches on barnacles, largest patch approx. 2
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x
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mm, less than
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in thickness. Microhispid, soft. Color: brick-red.
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. Acanthostyles erect on the substrate, in clumps or bouquets, with the larger penetrating the surface. Ectosomal tylotes arranged in bundles fanning out and carrying the surface membrane; scattered tylotes arranged tangentially. Chelae forming a dense mass in the surface membrane.
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. Ectosomal microspined tylotes, acanthostyles in two size categories, palmate isochelae.
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Tylotes (
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AB), with elongate, slightly unequal heads, microspined at both ends, 237-
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-309
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-3.5 µm.
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Large acanthostyles (
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C) without prominent heads, spined all over but fewer spines toward the pointed end, 129-
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-293
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-10 µm, small acanthostyles (
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CD), similarly shaped, 63-
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-
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3.5-
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-7 µm. The two size categories are not sharply delimited. Palmate isochelae (
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E), rather narrow, but otherwise of quite usual shape, very little size variation, 9-
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-14 µm.
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.
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<emphasis id="B91DEAB4AE73FFF9FDA2F98DDA15F9C0" bold="true" box="[554,617,1598,1622]" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">n. sp.</emphasis>
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, SEM images of spicules (Holotype ZMA Por. 21063). AB. Ectosomal microspined tylote, and details of apices; C. Large and small acanthostyles; D. Detail of small acanthostyle; E. Palmate isochela.
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<emphasis id="B91DEAB4AE73FFF9FF4DF97AD95AF975" bold="true" box="[197,294,1737,1763]" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">Ecology</emphasis>
. Encrusting on and between barnacles, in shallow reef caves, approx.
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<emphasis id="B91DEAB4AE73FFF9FF4DF943D936F89C" bold="true" box="[197,330,1776,1802]" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">Etymology</emphasis>
. The name refers to the thinly encrusting habit.
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. This species is provisionally assigned to
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<emphasis id="B91DEAB4AE73FFF9FCCCF8ABDBB1F8A7" box="[836,973,1816,1841]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">Megaciella</emphasis>
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, a genus predominantly consisting of elaborate coldwater forms, with reticulate skeletons (
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). No
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species have been reported from the Central West Atlantic (van
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, on line). The species would fit more easily in
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<emphasis id="B91DEAB4AE73FFF9FF1FF838D9E1F832" box="[151,413,1931,1956]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">Clathria (Microciona)</emphasis>
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, but this is precluded by the microspined tylotes, instead of which it should have had microspined subtylostyles. A remote possibility is that it is an
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<emphasis id="B91DEAB4AE73FFF9FB05F801DC8AF85D" box="[1165,1270,1970,1995]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">Acarnus</emphasis>
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lacking both cladotylotes and toxas, which would then be unrecognziable as
<taxonomicName id="4C694D25AE73FFF9FCF5F86ADBA2F864" box="[893,990,2009,2034]" class="Demospongiae" family="Acarnidae" genus="Acarnus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Poecilosclerida" pageId="14" pageNumber="15" phylum="Porifera" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B91DEAB4AE73FFF9FCF5F86ADBA2F864" box="[893,990,2009,2034]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">Acarnus</emphasis>
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, as some similarity exists with tylotes and isochelae of e.g.
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<emphasis id="B91DEAB4AE72FFF8FE1CFF2BDA1EFF27" box="[404,610,152,177]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Acarnus nicoleae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
van
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Soest
<emphasis id="B91DEAB4AE72FFF8FD6EFF2BDB5EFF27" box="[742,802,152,177]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">et al.</emphasis>
(1991)
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. Still, many genera in the
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share elaborate reticulate species as well as species with hymedemioid skeletons, such as
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<emphasis id="B91DEAB4AE72FFF8FBFAFF0CDCAAFF4E" box="[1138,1238,191,216]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Clathria</emphasis>
Schmidt (1862)
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,
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<emphasis id="B91DEAB4AE72FFF8FF1FFF56D8A1FF68" box="[151,221,229,254]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Antho</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFF84B57AE72FFF8FF6CFF56D963FF69" author="Gray" box="[228,287,229,255]" pageId="15" pageNumber="37" refString="Gray, J. E. (1867 b) Notes on the arrangement of sponges, with the descriptions of some new genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1867 (2), 492 - 558." type="journal article" year="1867" yearSuffix="b">Gray</bibRefCitation>
(1867b)
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,
<taxonomicName id="4C694D25AE72FFF8FE18FF56DAE5FF69" authority="Gray (1867b)" authorityName="Gray" authorityYear="1867" box="[400,665,229,255]" class="Demospongiae" family="Acarnidae" genus="Acarnus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Poecilosclerida" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" phylum="Porifera" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B91DEAB4AE72FFF8FE18FF56D98EFF68" box="[400,498,229,254]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Acarnus</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFF84B57AE72FFF8FE70FF56DA4FFF69" author="Gray" box="[504,563,229,255]" pageId="15" pageNumber="37" refString="Gray, J. E. (1867 b) Notes on the arrangement of sponges, with the descriptions of some new genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1867 (2), 492 - 558." type="journal article" year="1867" yearSuffix="b">Gray</bibRefCitation>
(1867b)
</taxonomicName>
, or
<taxonomicName id="4C694D25AE72FFF8FD4BFF56DBC2FF69" authority="Gray (1867b)" authorityName="Gray" authorityYear="1867" box="[707,958,229,255]" class="Demospongiae" family="Acarnidae" genus="Iophon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Poecilosclerida" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" phylum="Porifera" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B91DEAB4AE72FFF8FD4BFF56DB6AFF68" box="[707,790,229,254]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Iophon</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFF84B57AE72FFF8FC95FF56DB24FF69" author="Gray" box="[797,856,229,255]" pageId="15" pageNumber="37" refString="Gray, J. E. (1867 b) Notes on the arrangement of sponges, with the descriptions of some new genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1867 (2), 492 - 558." type="journal article" year="1867" yearSuffix="b">Gray</bibRefCitation>
(1867b)
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, and the species described here is merely the first such form reported for
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<emphasis id="B91DEAB4AE72FFF8FDA9FEBFDAD7FEB3" box="[545,683,268,293]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Megaciella</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. No matching descriptions are known from the Central West Atlantic.
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