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.
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(type locality),
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, 2
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depth
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,
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.
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<subSubSection id="F8EE652AFFB3F8772DC4FF24FCE9FDBF" pageId="29" pageNumber="280" type="diagnosis">
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<emphasis id="8280EAB3FFB3F8772DC4FF24FEA8FF6D" bold="true" box="[199,322,150,176]" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
This is the only Tropical Western Atlantic
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<emphasis id="8280EAB3FFB3F8772E27FF25FC51FF6D" box="[804,955,151,176]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">Xestospongia</emphasis>
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with a cushion-shape, no projections, with relatively small oscula (
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diam.), and white to beige colour
<emphasis id="8280EAB3FFB3F8772E7EFF09FC23FF09" box="[893,969,187,212]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">in vivo</emphasis>
. Megascleres are oxeas with acerate, hastate and mucronate ends, 300450/
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.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="B04B36A1FFB3F8772DC4FEB1FA9DFE54" blockId="29.[151,1437,150,610]" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">
<emphasis id="8280EAB3FFB3F8772DC4FEB1FE21FEC0" bold="true" box="[199,459,259,285]" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">External morphology.</emphasis>
Cushion-shaped, up to
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in diameter (
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). Surface smooth to the naked eye, irregular, without any marked projections, but rough to the touch. Rare, circular oscules (
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diam.). Consistency firm, slightly compressible, and fragile. Colour
<emphasis id="8280EAB3FFB3F8772FF0FEF9FCD5FEB9" box="[755,831,331,356]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">in vivo</emphasis>
light yellowish-white (
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), light grayish-brown (MNRJ 20131), or light yellowish-beige (MNRJ 21029), becoming a light shade of gray or beige after fixation.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="B04B36A1FFB3F8772DC4FE20FEE1FDC7" blockId="29.[151,1437,150,610]" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">
<emphasis id="8280EAB3FFB3F8772DC4FE20FEDFFE71" bold="true" box="[199,309,402,428]" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">Skeleton.</emphasis>
Ectosomal, an isodyctial, isotropic reticulation (
<figureCitation id="28CF2A24FFB3F8772E5FFE21FC5EFE70" box="[860,948,403,429]" captionStart="FIGURE 7" captionStartId="30.[151,250,1711,1735]" captionTargetBox="[151,1435,453,1678]" captionTargetId="figure-160@30.[151,1435,453,1688]" captionTargetPageId="30" captionText="FIGURE 7. Xestospongia dorigo sp. nov. Holotype (A, CF), MNRJ 15405. Paratype (B), MNRJ 21029. (AB) specimens in situ, (C) ectosome in tangential view, (D) perpendicular section through the choanosome, (EF) oxeas and details of their extremities. Scale bars: (AB) 1 cm, (C) 100 µm, (D) 500 µm, (E) 50 µm, (F) 5 µm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5677207" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5677207/files/figure.png" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">Fig. 7C</figureCitation>
) with uni- to paucispicular tracts (up to
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thick), forming (sub)triangular meshes (
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wide). Choanosomal, similar, but denser than the ectosomal, tracts
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thick, meshes
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wide (
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); aquiferous canals seen here and there (
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wide).
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<paragraph id="B04B36A1FFB3F8772DC4FD90FCE9FDBF" blockId="29.[151,1437,150,610]" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">
<emphasis id="8280EAB3FFB3F8772DC4FD90FEDAFDE1" bold="true" box="[199,304,546,572]" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">Spicules.</emphasis>
Oxeas in a single size class, smooth, slightly curved, with hastate, acerate and mucronate edges: 294369 (22)445/ 510 (2)
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(
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;
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).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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<emphasis id="8280EAB3FFB3F8772D94FD22FEE0FD74" bold="true" box="[151,266,656,681]" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">TABLE 7.</emphasis>
Spicule measurements of
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<emphasis id="8280EAB3FFB3F8772F27FD23FCEBFD75" box="[548,769,656,680]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">Xestospongia dorigo</emphasis>
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Values given in min.med. (SD)max.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="B04B36A1FFB3F8772DA5FD0AFBFDFC97" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">
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<emphasis id="8280EAB3FFB3F8772DA5FD0AFEF2FD0D" bold="true" box="[166,280,696,720]" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">Specimens</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="8280EAB3FFB3F8772F89FD0AFC98FD0D" bold="true" box="[650,882,696,720]" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">Oxeas (length/ width)</emphasis>
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<td id="4D155D9FFFB307952DA5FD52FE01FD24" box="[166,491,736,761]" gridcol="0" gridrow="1" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">Holotype MNRJ 15405 Alagoas</td>
<td id="4D155D9FFFB307952F89FD52FBC1FD24" box="[650,1067,736,761]" gridcol="1" gridrow="1" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">363398 (21.8)445/ 1013 (2.2)15 µm</td>
</tr>
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<td id="4D155D9FFFB307952DA5FCBBFE01FCFC" box="[166,491,777,801]" gridcol="0" gridrow="2" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">Paratype MNRJ 20131 Ceará</td>
<td id="4D155D9FFFB307952F89FCBBFBC1FCFC" box="[650,1067,777,801]" gridcol="1" gridrow="2" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">294339 (22)388/ 57 (1.7)9 µm</td>
</tr>
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<td id="4D155D9FFFB307952DA5FC83FE01FC97" box="[166,491,817,842]" gridcol="0" gridrow="3" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">Paratype MNRJ 21029 Alagoas</td>
<td id="4D155D9FFFB307952F89FC83FBC1FC97" box="[650,1067,817,842]" gridcol="1" gridrow="3" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">305369 (26.6)431/ 1011 (2)15 µm</td>
</tr>
</table>
</paragraph>
<subSubSection id="F8EE652AFFB3F8772DC4FCCBFE77FC6B" pageId="29" pageNumber="280" type="biology_ecology">
<paragraph id="B04B36A1FFB3F8772DC4FCCBFE77FC6B" blockId="29.[151,1437,888,2031]" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">
<emphasis id="8280EAB3FFB3F8772DC4FCCBFEC6FC4E" bold="true" box="[199,300,889,915]" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">Ecology.</emphasis>
The species occurs in association with other sponge species, tunicates, ophiuroids and mollusks, between 1 and
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depth.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="F8EE652AFFB3F8772DC4FC73FC23FC23" pageId="29" pageNumber="280" type="etymology">
<paragraph id="B04B36A1FFB3F8772DC4FC73FC23FC23" blockId="29.[151,1437,888,2031]" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">
<emphasis id="8280EAB3FFB3F8772DC4FC73FEA4FC06" bold="true" box="[199,334,961,987]" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">Etymology.</emphasis>
The specific epithet is used as a noun in apposition, and honors Prof. Dr. Monica Dorigo Correia, prematurely deceased, a long-time collaborator and friend of the authors.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="F8EE652AFFB3F8742DC4FBBBFC58FE70" lastPageId="30" lastPageNumber="281" pageId="29" pageNumber="280" type="materials_examined">
<paragraph id="B04B36A1FFB3F8772DC4FBBBFCD8FB9A" blockId="29.[151,1437,888,2031]" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">
<emphasis id="8280EAB3FFB3F8772DC4FBBBFE8FFBFF" bold="true" box="[199,357,1032,1059]" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">Type locality.</emphasis>
Marechal Deodoro (Francês Beach),
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,
<collectingCountry id="C8E37631FFB3F8772EA8FBBAFC19FBFF" box="[939,1011,1032,1058]" name="Brazil" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">Brazil</collectingCountry>
.
<emphasis id="8280EAB3FFB3F8772EFFFBBAFAFDFBFF" bold="true" box="[1020,1303,1032,1058]" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">Additional distribution.</emphasis>
Provisional Brazilian endemic, also known from
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(Caucaia).
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<paragraph id="B04B36A1FFB3F8772DC4FBE2FAE1FAC3" blockId="29.[151,1437,888,2031]" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">
<emphasis id="8280EAB3FFB3F8772DC4FBE2FE55FBB6" bold="true" box="[199,447,1104,1131]" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">Taxonomic remarks.</emphasis>
There are only 11 shallow and relatively shallow-water species of
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<emphasis id="8280EAB3FFB3F87729BFFBE3FAB9FBB7" box="[1212,1363,1105,1130]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">Xestospongia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in the Tropical Western Atlantic (see
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Carvalho
<emphasis id="8280EAB3FFB3F8772F59FBC7FD7BFB53" box="[602,657,1140,1166]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">et al.</emphasis>
2016
</bibRefCitation>
). These include
<emphasis id="8280EAB3FFB3F8772E85FBC7FBC1FB53" box="[902,1067,1140,1166]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">
<taxonomicName id="77F44D22FFB3F8772E85FBC7FBCDFB53" authorityName="Lehnert &amp; van Soest" authorityYear="1999" box="[902,1063,1140,1166]" class="Demospongiae" family="Petrosiidae" genus="Xestospongia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Haplosclerida" pageId="29" pageNumber="280" phylum="Porifera" rank="species" species="deweerdtae">X. deweerdtae</taxonomicName>
,
</emphasis>
<taxonomicName id="77F44D22FFB3F8772932FBC7FA76FB52" authority="Van Soest, 1980" authorityName="Van Soest" authorityYear="1980" box="[1073,1436,1141,1167]" class="Demospongiae" family="Petrosiidae" genus="Xestospongia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Haplosclerida" pageId="29" pageNumber="280" phylum="Porifera" rank="species" species="portoricensis">
<emphasis id="8280EAB3FFB3F8772932FBC7FB09FB53" box="[1073,1251,1141,1166]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">X. portoricensis</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="D4654B50FFB3F87729EAFBC7FA76FB52" author="Van Soest, R. W. M." box="[1257,1436,1141,1167]" pageId="29" pageNumber="280" pagination="1 - 173" refId="ref27116" refString="Van Soest, R. W. M. (1980) Marine sponges from Curacao and other Caribbean localities. Part II. Haplosclerida. In: Hummelinck, P. W. &amp; Van der Steen, L. J. (Eds), Uitgaven van de Natuurwetenschappelijke Studiekring voor Suriname en de Nederlandse Antillen. No. 104. Studies on the Fauna of Curacao and other Caribbean Islands, 62 (191), 1 - 173." type="journal article" year="1980">Van Soest, 1980</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="8280EAB3FFB3F8772DC4FB2BFEC5FB6F" box="[199,303,1177,1202]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">X. rampa</emphasis>
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(the latter deemed to be a junior synonym of
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<emphasis id="8280EAB3FFB3F877291EFB2BFB9FFB6F" box="[1053,1141,1177,1202]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">X. muta</emphasis>
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by
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), which possess strongyles instead of oxeas as their megascleres; as well as
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<emphasis id="8280EAB3FFB3F8772E6BFB0FFBFFFB0B" box="[872,1045,1212,1238]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">X. bocatorensis</emphasis>
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Diaz
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, 2007
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, which possesses sigma microscleres. All four species are regarded quite distinct from
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<emphasis id="8280EAB3FFB3F8772E9EFB53FBE2FB27" box="[925,1032,1248,1274]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">X. dorigo</emphasis>
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</emphasis>
Considerably smaller spicules than seen in
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<emphasis id="8280EAB3FFB3F8772C5BFAB7FE28FAC3" box="[344,450,1284,1310]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">X. dorigo</emphasis>
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differentiate
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<emphasis id="8280EAB3FFB3F8772FBAFAB7FCC4FAC3" box="[697,814,1284,1310]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">X. menzeli</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="D4654B50FFB3F8772E37FAB6FC5DFAC3" author="Little, F. J." box="[820,951,1284,1310]" pageId="29" pageNumber="280" pagination="31 - 71" refId="ref24936" refString="Little, F. J. (1963) The sponge fauna of the St. George's Sound, Apalache Bay, and Panama City Regions of the Florida Gulf Coast. Tulane Studies in Zoology, 11 (2), 31 - 71. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 7050" type="journal article" year="1963">Little, 1963</bibRefCitation>
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from our new species as well.
</paragraph>
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The remaining five species are
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<emphasis id="8280EAB3FFB3F8772F29FA9BFD49FA9F" box="[554,675,1321,1346]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">X. arenosa</emphasis>
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,
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<emphasis id="8280EAB3FFB3F8772907FA9BFB6FFA9F" box="[1028,1157,1321,1346]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">X caminata</emphasis>
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,
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<emphasis id="8280EAB3FFB3F8772887FA9BFF25FABB" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">X. muta</emphasis>
(
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)
</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis id="8280EAB3FFB3F8772C95FAFFFDF1FABB" box="[406,539,1357,1382]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">X. purpurea</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="8280EAB3FFB3F8772926FAFFFB0AFABB" box="[1061,1248,1356,1382]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">X. wiedenmayeri</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="D4654B50FFB3F87729E5FAFFFA72FABA" author="Van Soest, R. W. M." box="[1254,1432,1357,1383]" pageId="29" pageNumber="280" pagination="1 - 173" refId="ref27116" refString="Van Soest, R. W. M. (1980) Marine sponges from Curacao and other Caribbean localities. Part II. Haplosclerida. In: Hummelinck, P. W. &amp; Van der Steen, L. J. (Eds), Uitgaven van de Natuurwetenschappelijke Studiekring voor Suriname en de Nederlandse Antillen. No. 104. Studies on the Fauna of Curacao and other Caribbean Islands, 62 (191), 1 - 173." type="journal article" year="1980">van Soest, 1980</bibRefCitation>
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.
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<emphasis id="8280EAB3FFB3F8772D94FAC3FE67FA57" box="[151,397,1393,1418]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">Xestospongia arenosa</emphasis>
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was originally reported as comprising “clusters of short irregular tubes and closed digitations, and smaller fistules rising from a massive base, which is usually entirely covered by sediment, rubble and shells” (cf.
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). Overall, this habit is notoriously distinct from the nearly flat, only thickly encrusting habit observed in
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<emphasis id="8280EAB3FFB3F8772CC3FA6FFDC0FA2B" box="[448,554,1500,1526]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">X. dorigo</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="8280EAB3FFB3F8772F33FA6FFD6EFA2A" bold="true" box="[560,644,1501,1527]" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">sp. nov</emphasis>
.
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, which, furthermore possesses only rare, rather small (
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diam.) oscula, contrasting to the large oscula (up to
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diam.) reported for
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(
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,
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Rützler
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2014
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,
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).
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<emphasis id="8280EAB3FFB3F8772F62F997FC83F9E3" box="[609,873,1573,1598]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">Xestospongia caminata</emphasis>
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usually has a smooth surface and large (
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diam.) oscula, bearing megascleres of varied form, mostly oxeas, but ranging to styles and strongyles. Its megascleres were reported to be considerably smaller (
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,
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) than those in
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<emphasis id="8280EAB3FFB3F8772805F9DFFA98F95B" box="[1286,1394,1644,1670]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">X. dorigo</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="8280EAB3FFB3F8772878F9DFFF22F976" bold="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="99B357C8FFB3F8772878F9DFFF22F976" pageId="29" pageNumber="280" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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, but a subsequent record of the species by
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found megascleres as large as
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, thus approaching the size of spicules seen in the new species. However, we consider the sponge habit sufficiently characteristic to preclude their possile cospecificity, strenghtened by the fact that
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<emphasis id="8280EAB3FFB3F8772921F96BFB43F92F" box="[1058,1193,1753,1778]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">X. caminata</emphasis>
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is reported to be dark coloured
<emphasis id="8280EAB3FFB3F8772C02F94FFEA7F8CB" box="[257,333,1789,1814]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">in vivo</emphasis>
, while
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<emphasis id="8280EAB3FFB3F8772CA3F94FFDE1F8CB" box="[416,523,1788,1814]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">X. dorigo</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="8280EAB3FFB3F8772F11F94FFD8DF8CA" bold="true" box="[530,615,1789,1815]" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">sp. nov</emphasis>
.
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is light-coloured.
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<emphasis id="8280EAB3FFB3F8772E3FF94FFBF8F8CB" box="[828,1042,1789,1814]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">Xestospongia muta</emphasis>
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, known as the great-barrel sponge, is markedly distinct from the new species, even when quite young, for its purplish-rose colour
<emphasis id="8280EAB3FFB3F87729B8F893FAEDF8E7" box="[1211,1287,1825,1850]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">in vivo</emphasis>
. Besides, the strongyles present in the majority of Brazilian specimens studied, which on one side are only occasionally modified into strongyloxeas, and on the other are much stouter (with the means of spicule widths being around
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), support differentiating the two species.
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<emphasis id="8280EAB3FFB3F8772F5BF83FFCB4F87B" box="[600,862,1933,1958]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">Xestospongia purpurea</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, in addition to its distinctive spotted purple colour
<emphasis id="8280EAB3FFB3F8772D94F803FF0FF817" box="[151,229,1969,1994]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="280">in vivo</emphasis>
, has much stouter megascleres, thus appearing quite distinct from the new species too. Megasclere thickness is well known to be directly dependent on proximity from continental sources of silica in the wider Caribbean region (e.g.
<bibRefCitation id="D4654B50FFB0F8742C22FF25FE7AFF6C" author="Zea, S." box="[289,400,151,177]" pageId="30" pageNumber="281" refId="ref27865" refString="Zea, S. (1987) Esponjas del Caribe Colombiano. Catalogo Cientifico Bogota, Colombia, 286 pp." type="book" year="1987">Zea 1987</bibRefCitation>
), and accordingly, this is a character to be looked at cautiously. In the case of
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<emphasis id="8280EAB3FFB0F874280EFF25FA7FFF6D" box="[1293,1429,151,176]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="281">X. purpurea</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, both records are from continental sites (
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and Cartagena; respectively
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Rützler
<emphasis id="8280EAB3FFB0F874293DFF09FB9DFF08" box="[1086,1143,187,213]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="281">et al.</emphasis>
2014
</bibRefCitation>
;
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), optimal surrogates for the confirmation of the species ability to produce thicker spicules. As
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<emphasis id="8280EAB3FFB0F87429A2FF6DFAE0FF24" box="[1185,1290,223,249]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="281">X. dorigo</emphasis>
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</emphasis>
also occurs in coastal and supposedly silica rich waters (Ceará and Alagoas States), we consider the distinctness of both species ability to build thick spicules to be of diagnostic importance. Lastly,
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<emphasis id="8280EAB3FFB0F8742EFAFE95FB5CFE9C" box="[1017,1206,295,321]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="281">X. wiedenmayeri</emphasis>
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approaches the new species considerably. Points of distinction are the presence of cylindrical projections and hollow fistules, the dark brownish-red colour in the fixative, and somewhat thicker oxeas of the latter species from
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. Given the above comparisons, we are confident that
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<emphasis id="8280EAB3FFB0F8742F26FE21FD65FE70" box="[549,655,403,429]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="281">X. dorigo</emphasis>
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</emphasis>
is a new species.
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