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<emphasis id="31CAEAAE0E1BAD12FF52FB5CC8FC05FD" bold="true" box="[151,436,1253,1279]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="357">Heteromeyenia insignis</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="672F4B4D0E1BAD12FE79FB5CCB2005FD" author="Weltner" box="[444,616,1253,1279]" pageId="6" pageNumber="357" refString="Weltner, W. (1895) Spongillidenstudien III. Katalog und Verbreitung der bekannten Susswasserschwamme. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, 61, 114 - 144." type="journal article" year="1895">Weltner, 1895</bibRefCitation>
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<emphasis id="31CAEAAE0E1BAD12FF52FA95C8530447" bold="true" box="[151,283,1324,1349]" pageId="6" pageNumber="357">Synonymy.</emphasis>
For synonymy see
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Muricy
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(2011)
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.
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Material:
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Por 2148 (not seen). Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin.
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<emphasis id="31CAEAAE0E1BAD12FF02FACDC8DC048F" bold="true" box="[199,404,1396,1421]" pageId="6" pageNumber="357">Material studied.</emphasis>
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0 0 0 2, Atlântico Sul Basin, Rio Grande do Sul State,
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Species of
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characterized by the presence of acanthoxea megascleres with tuberculated spines and acanthoxea microscleres; two categories of gemmuloscleres: birotules with microspined margins of rotules and spined shaft, and pseudobirotules with large apical spines disposed orthogonally to the shaft, with sharp terminations bent as a hawks bill, and spined shaft.
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<emphasis id="31CAEAAE0E1BAD12FF02F991C8110743" bold="true" box="[199,345,1576,1601]" pageId="6" pageNumber="357">Description.</emphasis>
Sponge encrusting. Surface hispid with protuberances. Oscules irregularly scattered over the surface of the sponge. Colour is bright green
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and creamy white when dry (
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). Consistency soft and gelatinous in life, fragile in the dry condition. According to
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the species can be confused with algae when touched. Ectosomal skeleton with scattered microscleres. Choanosomal skeleton is an irregular network of paucispicular parallel fibres. Megascleres and microscleres are isolated and scattered randomly. Megascleres acanthoxeas (190261303 / 1215 µm) with tuberculated microspines, straight or slightly curved, sharpening gradually towards the apices (
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a,b). Microscleres acanthoxeas (356075 / 35 µm) with straight or curved, simple or compound spines. Curved spines occur near the tips of the spicule, with centripetal direction and are always simple. Straight spines occur in the median portion of the spicule, can be simple (rare) or compound (predominant). The compound spines have a bouquet-like structure, where the primary spine supports the secondary spines (
<figureCitation id="9B852A390E1BAD12FEAFF829C8F806AB" box="[362,432,1936,1961]" captionStart="FIGURE 5" captionStartId="8.[151,250,1872,1894]" captionTargetBox="[206,1374,193,1845]" captionTargetId="figure@8.[206,1374,193,1845]" captionTargetPageId="8" captionText="FIGURE 5. Scanning electron microscopy images of the spicule set of Heteromeyenia insignis Weltner, 1895 (MNRJ 0002). (a) Megascleres: acanthoxeas. (b) Detail of the shaft of a mesgasclere. (c) Acanthoxea microscleres shapes. (d) Detail of the shaft of microscleres. (e) Pseudobirotule gemmulosclere. (f) Various shapes of birotule gemmuloscleres. (g) Detail of the pseudorotule of a pseudobirotule. (h) Detail of the rotule of a birotule. Scale bars: a 100 µm, b 10 µm, c, e, f 30 µm, d, g, h 5 µm." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/304610/files/figure.png" pageId="6" pageNumber="357">Fig. 5</figureCitation>
c,d). Gemmuloscleres in two categories: pseudobirotules (fig. 5e) (85105125 / 58 // 1525 µm) and birotules (fig. 5f) (7381105 / 58 // 1018 µm), in both the shaft present numerous conical spines (
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e,f). Pseudobirotules with large apical spines (pseudorotules) disposed orthogonally to the shaft, with sharp terminations bent as a hawks bill. The teeth project from the center of the pseudorotule and can be simple or anastomosing (
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g). Birotules with smooth surface rotules, flattened discs with marginal microspines bent towards the other rotule (
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h). Both are found in similar proportions in the gemmules. Gemmules (450500 µm) abundant, isolated or in groups, scattered throughout the sponge body, spherical, with the side of the foramen variously flattened (
<figureCitation id="9B852A390E1AAD13FE44FE9EC8810042" box="[385,457,295,320]" captionStart="FIGURE 6" captionStartId="9.[151,250,909,931]" captionTargetBox="[153,1433,193,887]" captionTargetId="figure@9.[153,1434,193,888]" captionTargetPageId="9" captionText="FIGURE 6. Scanning electron microscopy images of the gemmules of Heteromeyenia insignis Weltner, 1895 (MNRJ 0002). (a) Gemmule. (b) Foramen of gemmule. (c) Well developed, tri-layered gemmular theca. Scale bars: a 300 µm, b, c 50 µm." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/304614/files/figure.png" pageId="7" pageNumber="358">Fig. 6</figureCitation>
a). Foramen with irregular shape. Gemmular theca tri-layered with gemmuloscleres radially embedded. Pneumatic layer well developed (
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b,c).
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<emphasis id="31CAEAAE0E1AAD13FF02FED6C863008A" bold="true" box="[199,299,367,392]" pageId="7" pageNumber="358">Ecology.</emphasis>
The specimen was found encrusting small submerged pebbles.
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<emphasis id="31CAEAAE0E1AAD13FF52F8D4C85A0681" bold="true" box="[151,274,1901,1923]" pageId="7" pageNumber="358">FIGURE 4.</emphasis>
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Weltner, 1895
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(MNRJ 0002), dry specimen. Scale bars: a 1cm, b,c 500 µm.
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<emphasis id="31CAEAAE0E15AD1CFF52F8E9C85C0667" bold="true" box="[151,276,1872,1894]" pageId="8" pageNumber="359">FIGURE 5.</emphasis>
Scanning electron microscopy images of the spicule set of
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<emphasis id="31CAEAAE0E15AD1CFCBCF8E8CD210664" box="[889,1129,1873,1894]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="359">Heteromeyenia insignis</emphasis>
Weltner, 1895
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(MNRJ 0002). (a) Megascleres: acanthoxeas. (b) Detail of the shaft of a mesgasclere. (c) Acanthoxea microscleres shapes. (d) Detail of the shaft of microscleres. (e) Pseudobirotule gemmulosclere. (f) Various shapes of birotule gemmuloscleres. (g) Detail of the pseudorotule of a pseudobirotule. (h) Detail of the rotule of a birotule. Scale bars: a 100 µm, b 10 µm, c, e, f 30 µm, d, g, h 5 µm.
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<emphasis id="31CAEAAE0E14AD1DFF52FC34C85C02A1" bold="true" box="[151,276,909,931]" pageId="9" pageNumber="360">FIGURE 6.</emphasis>
Scanning electron microscopy images of the gemmules of
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Weltner, 1895
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(MNRJ 0002). (a) Gemmule. (b) Foramen of gemmule. (c) Well developed, tri-layered gemmular theca. Scale bars: a 300 µm, b, c 50 µm.
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<emphasis id="31CAEAAE0E14AD1DFF02FC57C8280505" bold="true" box="[199,352,1006,1031]" pageId="9" pageNumber="360">Distribution.</emphasis>
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: Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul States: South Atlantic Basin.
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<emphasis id="31CAEAAE0E14AD1DFF02FBAAC873052E" bold="true" box="[199,315,1043,1068]" pageId="9" pageNumber="360">Remarks.</emphasis>
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described
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<emphasis id="31CAEAAE0E14AD1DFDA9FBADCBA00529" box="[620,744,1044,1067]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="360">H. insignis</emphasis>
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based on material collected by Fritz Müller from Blumenau (Santa Catarina State). Probably, this specimen was collected in the Itaja River, since all the sponges deposited in the collection of Museu de Zoologia of Universidade de São Paulo (MZUSP), that were collected by Fritz Müller, had been recorded from this locality.
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redescribed the species based on material collected at Dom Pedro I stream, in São Francisco de Paula (Rio Grande do Sul State), to complete the extremely succinct description offered by
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. Her material was deposited at Museu Nacional (MNRJ 0002), and is reexamined here.
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Ezcurra de Drago (1979) proposed the synonymization of
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<emphasis id="31CAEAAE0E14AD1DFC9CFAA9CA9B0425" box="[857,979,1296,1319]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="360">H. insignis</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="31CAEAAE0E14AD1DFBCFFAA9CD310425" box="[1034,1145,1294,1319]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="360">H. baileyi</emphasis>
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, arguing that the material used for redescription of the former (MNRJ 0002) also has hook-like spines in the rotules, a trait considered by
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as a distinctive character between both species. This synonymy was completely ignored in subsequent works of other authors (
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Rosa-Barbosa 1984
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;
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Volkmer-Ribeiro
<emphasis id="31CAEAAE0E14AD1DFC38FAC5CD660496" box="[1021,1070,1403,1428]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="360">et al</emphasis>
. 1988
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;
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Batista
<emphasis id="31CAEAAE0E14AD1DFB1DFAC5CC400496" box="[1240,1288,1403,1428]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="360">et al</emphasis>
. 2007
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).
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<paragraph id="030136BC0E14AD1DFF02FA27CD480745" blockId="9.[151,1437,1006,2004]" pageId="9" pageNumber="360">
<bibRefCitation id="672F4B4D0E14AD1DFF02FA27CB3F04B5" author="Kilian" box="[199,631,1438,1463]" pageId="9" pageNumber="360" refString="Kilian, E. F. &amp; Wintermann-Kilian, G. (1976) Die Spongilliden Sudamerikas: derzeitiger Stand der Kenntnis ihrer Verbreitung. First general appraisal of the feshwater sponges faunal Chile. Publications du Laboratoire de Zoologie de L'Ecole Nomale Superieure, 9, 75 - 97." type="journal article" year="1976">Kilian &amp; Wintermann-Kilian (1976)</bibRefCitation>
described
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<emphasis id="31CAEAAE0E14AD1DFCC4FA19CAB404B5" box="[769,1020,1438,1463]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="360">Heteromeyenia horsti</emphasis>
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from material collected in
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. Comparison of the description and images available of this species (
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; Ezcurra de Drago 1979) with
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<emphasis id="31CAEAAE0E14AD1DFEA3FA51C8A804FD" box="[358,480,1512,1535]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="360">H. insignis</emphasis>
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does not reveal any significant differences. The size and morphology of the spicules are identical. It is possible that both species are synonymous, but to confirm this hypothesis it is necessary to analyze the
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material of
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<emphasis id="31CAEAAE0E14AD1DFE10F989CB700745" box="[469,568,1582,1607]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="360">H. horsti</emphasis>
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, which was not possible at this moment.
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This is the first work providing scanning electron micrographs of the complete set of spicules of
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<emphasis id="31CAEAAE0E14AD1DFF52F9C1C8E8078D" box="[151,416,1656,1679]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="360">Heteromeyenia insignis</emphasis>
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. Ezcurra de Drago (1979) offered images of the gemmuloscleres only. When we compare
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<emphasis id="31CAEAAE0E14AD1DFF52F925C85907B1" box="[151,273,1692,1715]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="360">H. insignis</emphasis>
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(MNRJ 0002) and the redescription of the
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of
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<emphasis id="31CAEAAE0E14AD1DFC4DF925CABF07B6" box="[904,1015,1691,1716]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="360">H. baileyi</emphasis>
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(see
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; Fig. 38), reveals characteristics that justify
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<emphasis id="31CAEAAE0E14AD1DFD8CF979CB8B07D5" box="[585,707,1728,1751]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="360">H. insignis</emphasis>
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as a valid species. In
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<emphasis id="31CAEAAE0E14AD1DFC7EF979CD6107D5" box="[955,1065,1726,1751]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="360">H. baileyi</emphasis>
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the shaft of gemmuloscleres can be smooth or with a few spines (see
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; Fig.
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,j), while
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<emphasis id="31CAEAAE0E14AD1DFBBFF95DCDB107F9" box="[1146,1273,1764,1787]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="360">H. insignis</emphasis>
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has the shaft completely covered by spines (
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e,f). The teeth of pseudorotules in
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<emphasis id="31CAEAAE0E14AD1DFC0DF8B1CD70061D" box="[968,1080,1798,1823]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="360">H. baileyi</emphasis>
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have tips bent backwards (180 angle,
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; Fig. 38k), whereas in
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<emphasis id="31CAEAAE0E14AD1DFCFEF895CAF20641" box="[827,954,1836,1859]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="360">H. insignis</emphasis>
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, this bending is more discreet, with tips resembling a hawks bill, pointing towards the other pseudorotule (90 angle,
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Fig.
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g).
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Another character that could be useful to distinguish species of
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<emphasis id="31CAEAAE0E14AD1DFC25F8CDCDC20689" box="[992,1162,1908,1931]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="360">Heteromeyenia</emphasis>
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is the morphology of microscleres. However, there is no SEM done of the
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material of
<taxonomicName id="C4BE4D3F0E14AD1DFC61F821CD5A06AD" box="[932,1042,1942,1967]" class="Demospongiae" family="Spongillidae" genus="Spongilla" kingdom="Animalia" order="Haplosclerida" pageId="9" pageNumber="360" phylum="Porifera" rank="species" species="baileyi">
<emphasis id="31CAEAAE0E14AD1DFC61F821CD5A06AD" box="[932,1042,1942,1967]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="360">H. baileyi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, which precluded this comparison. Furthermore, previous studies on
<taxonomicName id="C4BE4D3F0E14AD1DFDD5F805CBF206D1" box="[528,698,1980,2003]" class="Demospongiae" family="Spongillidae" genus="Heteromeyenia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Haplosclerida" pageId="9" pageNumber="360" phylum="Porifera" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="31CAEAAE0E14AD1DFDD5F805CBF206D1" box="[528,698,1980,2003]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="360">Heteromeyenia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
did not discuss this character.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="030136BC0E17AD1EFF02FF2ECA1201FA" blockId="10.[151,1436,151,248]" pageId="10" pageNumber="361">
Finally, both species have a remarkably disjunct distribution:
<taxonomicName id="C4BE4D3F0E17AD1EFC6EFF20CDE701B2" box="[939,1199,151,176]" class="Demospongiae" family="Spongillidae" genus="Heteromeyenia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Haplosclerida" pageId="10" pageNumber="361" phylum="Porifera" rank="species" species="baileyi">
<emphasis id="31CAEAAE0E17AD1EFC6EFF20CDE701B2" box="[939,1199,151,176]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="361">Heteromeyenia baileyi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is known from the Northern Hemisphere in Nearctic and Palearctic (
<collectingCountry id="7BA9762C0E17AD1EFD19FF05CA4B01D6" box="[732,771,188,212]" name="United States of America" pageId="10" pageNumber="361">US</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="7BA9762C0E17AD1EFCD6FF05CA2201D7" box="[787,874,188,213]" name="Canada" pageId="10" pageNumber="361">Canada</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="7BA9762C0E17AD1EFCBFFF05CAAB01D6" box="[890,995,188,212]" name="Germany" pageId="10" pageNumber="361">Germany</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="7BA9762C0E17AD1EFC36FF05CD1D01D7" box="[1011,1109,188,213]" name="Portugal" pageId="10" pageNumber="361">Portugal</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="7BA9762C0E17AD1EFBA1FF05CDEF01D7" box="[1124,1191,188,213]" name="Spain" pageId="10" pageNumber="361">Spain</collectingCountry>
, and
<collectingCountry id="7BA9762C0E17AD1EFB2FFF05CC7201D7" box="[1258,1338,188,213]" name="Poland" pageId="10" pageNumber="361">Poland</collectingCountry>
) and
<taxonomicName id="C4BE4D3F0E17AD1EFA44FF04C9A601FA" class="Demospongiae" family="Spongillidae" genus="Heteromeyenia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Haplosclerida" pageId="10" pageNumber="361" phylum="Porifera" rank="species" species="insignis">
<emphasis id="31CAEAAE0E17AD1EFA44FF04C9A601FA" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="361">H. insignis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
only from Neotropical Region (
<collectingCountry id="7BA9762C0E17AD1EFD93FF66CBD701FA" box="[598,671,223,248]" name="Brazil" pageId="10" pageNumber="361">Brazil</collectingCountry>
, and
<collectingCountry id="7BA9762C0E17AD1EFD1CFF66CA0601FA" box="[729,846,223,248]" name="Argentina" pageId="10" pageNumber="361">Argentina</collectingCountry>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
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