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<emphasis bold="true" box="[151,412,906,932]" italics="true" pageId="76" pageNumber="77">Rhabdastrella fibrosa</emphasis>
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af
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: 81
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, figs 2324;
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; Muricy
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2011: 41, fig.
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examined.
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Por. 9785,
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, Luymes
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Shelf Expedition, station 51,
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, depth
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, bottom calcareous sand,
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.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,345,1182,1207]" pageId="76" pageNumber="77">Description.</emphasis>
Lobate sponges (
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a) with smooth dark red-brown surface. A few small contracted oscules crown the upper surface of the lobes. Size of the two specimens respectively 4.5
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x
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cm and 4
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x
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. Interior lighter colored, Consistency crumbly, compressible.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,309,1290,1315]" pageId="76" pageNumber="77">Skeleton.</emphasis>
A dense cortical region of
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thickness consisting of packed strongylospherasters, pierced by oxeas and carried by the cladomes of subcortical ortho/plagiotriaenes. Choanosomal skeleton with low spicular density, many megascleres singly, with few bundles.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,304,1398,1423]" pageId="76" pageNumber="77">Spicules.</emphasis>
(
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bf) Oxeas, ortho/plagiotriaenes, strongylospherasters, oxyasters.
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Oxeas (
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b,b1), elongately fusiform, with many thinner stages,
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1130
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1440 x 14
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41 µm.
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Ortho- to plagiotriaenes (
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c,c1), in a large size range, but not readily divisible in size categories, with conical endings of cladi and rhabdomes, cladi usually angled almost in the same plane except for the central axial part which is curved inwards; cladi occasionally wobbly or curled; rhabdomes 576
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63 µm; cladomes 213
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540 µm; cladi 121
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270
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48 µm.
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Strongylospherasters (
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de) in two size categories, the larger (
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d) of which are anthasters, i.e. the rays and center are predominantly smooth and only the rounded tips are heavily spined, diameters 22
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32 µm (number of rays difficult to determine but at least 20 or more); the smaller category (
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e) have the entire rays spined and smooth parts are confined to the small center, diameters 4
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10 µm, ray number 610.
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Oxyasters (
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f) with entirely spined, sharply pointed, conical rays, diameters 9
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14 µm, ray number 68.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,498,1830,1855]" pageId="76" pageNumber="77">Distribution and ecology.</emphasis>
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Shelf, NE
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, sandy bottoms at
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depth (previously
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).
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,315,1866,1891]" pageId="76" pageNumber="77">Remarks.</emphasis>
The drawing of the habit in
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differs rather strongly from our specimens, showing large oscules with pink oscular rims. This also applies to the photo of the specimen provided later by Muricy
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2011 (their fig. 5F). Nevertheless, the spiculation is closely similar to our specimens, leaving little doubt that our material is conspecific with Hechtels. A second species of
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<emphasis box="[860,1017,1974,1999]" italics="true" pageId="76" pageNumber="77">Rhabdastrella</emphasis>
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,
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<emphasis box="[1037,1186,1974,1999]" italics="true" pageId="76" pageNumber="77">R. virgultosa</emphasis>
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occurs in NE
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. It has no triaenes and the microscleres include large sterrospherasters, up to 50 µm in diameter, which necessitates redescription of the
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in order to check the generic assignment. The genus
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is defined as having large spheroxyasters in a dense ectosomal layer, and it seems that both
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="77" pageNumber="78">R. fibrosa</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis box="[284,429,223,248]" italics="true" pageId="77" pageNumber="78">R. virgultosa</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
do not conform exactly to the genus definition, and appear rather inbetween
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<emphasis box="[1297,1388,223,248]" italics="true" pageId="77" pageNumber="78">Stelletta</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis box="[151,234,260,285]" italics="true" pageId="77" pageNumber="78">Geodia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
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