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<emphasis id="9EB19E04FFF61732FEC822D7FE15FBD7" bold="true" box="[272,422,1002,1029]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="347">Tethya ornata</emphasis>
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<paragraph id="AC7A4216FFF61732FFAA2570FD9CFBAD" blockId="2.[114,647,1059,1216]" pageId="2" pageNumber="347">ETYMOLOGY. — After the frequent occurrence of spines and other anomalies of the spherasters.</paragraph>
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LOCALITY. —
<emphasis id="9EB19E04FFF61732FEE625B2FE51FB76" bold="true" box="[318,482,1165,1190]" pageId="2" pageNumber="347">Coconut Island</emphasis>
. Hawaii, under floating dock,
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<date id="D87B64D6FFF61732FE9E2594FE06FB13" box="[326,437,1192,1216]" pageId="2" pageNumber="347" value="1985-12-07">7.XII.1985</date>
, coll. P. Karuso.
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<paragraph id="AC7A4216FFF61732FFAA25C2FEB1FAC5" blockId="2.[114,647,1278,1520]" box="[114,258,1278,1304]" pageId="2" pageNumber="347">DESCRIPTION</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="9EB19E04FFF61732FFAA2422FF5EFAEB" box="[114,237,1310,1336]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="347">Morphology</emphasis>
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Body globose (
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), a little ellipsoidal with axes of 2.5 and
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. Tubercles small, less than
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high, and irregularly conical. Several tubercles support small stalked buds. Yellow ochre in alcohol, consistency firm. Choanosomal cavities host commensal polychaetes.
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Skeleton (
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)
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Megasclere bundles stout and not apically branched. Spherasters fill the middle and inner cortical layers, with larger spicules in the middle one. Few spherasters in the outer layer and absent in the choanosome. Micrasters cover the sponge surface (
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) and the cavities and channels of the cortex and choanosome.
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<emphasis id="9EB19E04FFF61732FD7D2075FD46FEB0" box="[677,757,329,355]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="347">Spicules</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="9EB19E04FFF61732FD7D205AFC83FE53" bold="true" box="[677,816,358,384]" pageId="2" pageNumber="347">Megascleres.</emphasis>
(
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) Main strongyloxeas 600- 1600 × 10-25 µm and auxiliary strongyloxeas, often transformed in anisostrongyles and styles, 300-800 × 4-18 µm. The two categories, howev- er, intergrade.
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<emphasis id="9EB19E04FFF61732FD7D20C3FCA9FDCA" bold="true" box="[677,794,511,537]" pageId="2" pageNumber="347">Megasters.</emphasis>
Spherasters 25-100 µm in diameter, R/C (ratio between ray length and centre diameter) = 0.2-1.5. Their shape, as their size, is extremely variable (
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D-F). Their rays, 15-20, are very frequently spined, forked or truncated at the tip, sometimes bent or shortened and rounded. Each spheraster may express a different set of these abnormal traits. Normal spherasters are more frequent among the small spicules. Abnormal spherasters are the large majority of the full grown spicules. The rare large normal spherasters show 90-100 µm in diameter and R/C = 1.
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<emphasis id="9EB19E04FFF61732FD7D224DFC9EFC58" bold="true" box="[677,813,881,907]" pageId="2" pageNumber="347">Micrasters.</emphasis>
Generally tylasters (
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G-H), sometimes strongylasters similar in the cortex and choanosome. Generally 6-8 µm in diameter, but their size is heterogeneous with a range of 2-15 µm including some very small or large asters. Also their shape is variable and dependent on the presence or absence of an enlarged centrum, and by the development of the knob at the tips of the rays. There are eight to twelve rays and these generally have a well-developed spiny knob at the tip. Some very small micrasters are irregularly shaped.
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<paragraph id="AC7A4216FFF61732FD7D25DCFCBAFB2B" blockId="2.[677,1210,1248,1704]" box="[677,777,1248,1274]" pageId="2" pageNumber="347">REMARKS</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="9EB19E04FFF61732FD7D25C3FCB7FACB" box="[677,772,1279,1304]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="347">T. ornata</emphasis>
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is well characterized by the spinosity and other anomalies of the majority of its megasters, an exception in the genus
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<emphasis id="9EB19E04FFF61732FC132401FBA1FA84" box="[971,1042,1341,1367]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="347">Tethya</emphasis>
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. Only another species of
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<emphasis id="9EB19E04FFF61732FCCC2467FCE9FAA6" box="[788,858,1371,1397]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="347">Tethya</emphasis>
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,
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<emphasis id="9EB19E04FFF61732FCB02467FC77FAA6" box="[872,964,1371,1397]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="347">T. tethya</emphasis>
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, an encrusting species from the Hawaii Aquarium of Honolulu, has been described for the Hawaii Islands (Laubenfels 1954). It differs from
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<emphasis id="9EB19E04FFF61732FC70248BFBA1FA03" box="[936,1042,1463,1488]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="347">T. ornata</emphasis>
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for its smaller spherasters without spines and the presence of oxyasters among the micrasters. One of us (Sarà) has studied
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collected at Oahu, Black Point, labelled “
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<emphasis id="9EB19E04FFF61732FC97270EFC43F999" box="[847,1008,1585,1612]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="347">Tethya japonica</emphasis>
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”, in the California Academy of Sciences, Natural History Museum. Spicular slides show that it is not
<taxonomicName id="6BC53995FFF61732FBCE2753FB3EF95B" authorityName="Sollas" authorityYear="1888" box="[1046,1165,1647,1672]" class="Demospongiae" family="Tethyidae" genus="Tethya" kingdom="Animalia" order="Tethyida" pageId="2" pageNumber="347" phylum="Porifera" rank="species" species="japonica">
<emphasis id="9EB19E04FFF61732FBCE2753FB3EF95B" box="[1046,1165,1647,1672]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="347">T. japonica</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
but more likely
<taxonomicName id="6BC53995FFF61732FCE827B1FBEEF97B" authority="(Thiele 1898)" baseAuthorityName="Thiele" baseAuthorityYear="1898" box="[816,1117,1677,1704]" class="Demospongiae" family="Tethyidae" genus="Tethya" kingdom="Animalia" order="Tethyida" pageId="2" pageNumber="347" phylum="Porifera" rank="species" species="deformis">
<emphasis id="9EB19E04FFF61732FCE827B1FC1DF97B" box="[816,942,1677,1704]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="347">T. deformis</emphasis>
(Thiele 1898)
</taxonomicName>
. Unfortunately, without a comparison with the
<typeStatus id="737EFCB4FFF01734FDE121F1FDDAFF34" box="[569,617,205,231]" pageId="4" pageNumber="349">type</typeStatus>
of
<taxonomicName id="6BC53995FFF01734FFAA21D0FF4EFED4" baseAuthorityName="Thiele" baseAuthorityYear="1898" box="[114,253,236,263]" class="Demospongiae" family="Tethyidae" genus="Tethya" kingdom="Animalia" order="Tethyida" pageId="4" pageNumber="349" phylum="Porifera" rank="species" species="deformis">
<emphasis id="9EB19E04FFF01734FFAA21D0FF4EFED4" box="[114,253,236,263]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="349">T. deformis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
recorded for the Museum für Naturkunde of Berlin but until now not found, we cannot be sure on this determination.
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