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<emphasis id="4BCFEAF41A10C2380BB612E69691FF00" bold="true" box="[151,430,151,177]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="47">Diplopodospongia rara</emphasis>
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sp. nov.
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(
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G, 5AD)
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Material examined.
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52693, Campbell Plateau, south of
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,
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Stn B175,
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,
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,
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,
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.
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location.
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Campbell Plateau, S of
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.
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<emphasis id="4BCFEAF41A10C2380BE6131F965FFE36" bold="true" box="[199,352,366,391]" pageId="15" pageNumber="47">Distribution.</emphasis>
Known only from
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location.
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<emphasis id="4BCFEAF41A10C2380BE613E39666FE1A" bold="true" box="[199,345,402,427]" pageId="15" pageNumber="47">Description.</emphasis>
The specimen is a small fragment (
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wide
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x
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mm long) of a thinly encrusting sponge,
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high. Surface is easily separable from underlying choanosome, with small oscules, &lt;
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diameter on the apical surface (
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G). Texture is slightly compressible, interior crumbly, surface granular to the touch. Colour in ethanol is white, interior is light beige.
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<emphasis id="4BCFEAF41A10C2380BE61053960AFD8A" bold="true" box="[199,309,546,571]" pageId="15" pageNumber="47">Skeleton.</emphasis>
Ectosome, a dense layer of diplospinorhabds. Choanosomal skeleton composed of thick tracts of megascleres that emerge vertically from a basal layer of spongin, which swirl and divide towards the surface. Microscleres are moderately densely scattered between the tracts.
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<emphasis id="4BCFEAF41A10C2380BE610FF966CFD17" box="[199,339,654,678]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="47">Megascleres</emphasis>
(
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A, Table 3)―
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, irregularly thickened but slender, curved or sinuous, one end thicker than the other, frequently centrotylote; 332 (294362)
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(48) µm.
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<emphasis id="4BCFEAF41A10C2380BE610A79668FD5F" box="[199,343,726,750]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="47">Microscleres</emphasis>
(
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BD, Table 3)―
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, squat, with symmetrical ends that are separated by a short shaft. The basal spine and whorl, and apical spine and whorl, are identical in ornamentation. The apex and base consist of three smooth spines that point obliquely away from the end of the microscleres. The basal and apical whorls consist of four smooth, bifurcate spines, separated by a smooth thick shaft; 28 (2433) µm long
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(2130) µm wide. Protospinorhabds are linear, and shaped like a bow-tie (
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CD).
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<emphasis id="4BCFEAF41A10C2380BE611FB9547FC12" bold="true" box="[199,632,906,931]" pageId="15" pageNumber="47">Substrate, depth range, and ecology.</emphasis>
Encrusting in a small patch on the surface of a boulder at
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.
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<emphasis id="4BCFEAF41A10C2380BE611DE9671FC76" bold="true" box="[199,334,943,967]" pageId="15" pageNumber="47">Etymology.</emphasis>
Named for the rarity of this species. No further specimens have been collected since the
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was found in 1959 (
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=Latin for rare).
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<emphasis id="4BCFEAF41A10C2380BE611869604FBBE" bold="true" box="[199,315,1015,1039]" pageId="15" pageNumber="47">Remarks.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="4BCFEAF41A10C2380A6311879573FBBE" box="[322,588,1014,1039]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="47">Diplopodospongia rara</emphasis>
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sp. nov.
</emphasis>
was first bought to the authors notice by Dame Professor Patricia Bergquist some years ago. Bergquist first illustrated the unique diplospinorhabds in
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, in which she assigned them to
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<emphasis id="4BCFEAF41A10C2380957164F9416FBE7" box="[630,809,1086,1110]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="47">Sigmosceptrella</emphasis>
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, with no additional comment. Since that time, several more
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species have come to hand and a clearer picture of the whole group has emerged. The key difference between encrusting species of
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<emphasis id="4BCFEAF41A10C238094716F79426FB2F" box="[614,793,1158,1182]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="47">Sigmosceptrella</emphasis>
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,
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<emphasis id="4BCFEAF41A10C238080616F794DAFB2F" box="[807,997,1158,1182]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="47">Neopodospongia</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="4BCFEAF41A10C23808CD16F69369FB2E" bold="true" box="[1004,1110,1159,1183]" pageId="15" pageNumber="47">gen. nov.</emphasis>
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, and
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<emphasis id="4BCFEAF41A10C2380FB216F7925BFB2F" box="[1171,1380,1158,1182]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="47">Diplopodospongia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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<emphasis id="4BCFEAF41A10C2380E4A16F697F7FB72" bold="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="47">gen. nov.</emphasis>
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, is the presence of sigmoidal protospinorhabds in the former two genera and a linear bow-tie shaped protodiplospinorhabd in the latter.
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<emphasis id="4BCFEAF41A10C2380AFF16BF95A3FB57" box="[478,668,1230,1254]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="47">Neopodospongia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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<emphasis id="4BCFEAF41A10C238098216BE9434FB56" bold="true" box="[675,779,1231,1255]" pageId="15" pageNumber="47">gen. nov.</emphasis>
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species also have aciculospinorhabds that clearly differentiate them from species of
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<emphasis id="4BCFEAF41A10C2380AE0168295AEFABA" box="[449,657,1267,1291]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="47">Diplopodospongia</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="4BCFEAF41A10C23809B91682943EFABA" bold="true" box="[664,769,1267,1291]" pageId="15" pageNumber="47">gen. nov.</emphasis>
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.
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