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). Colour in life is olive green, mottled with brown patches, dark chocolate brown in preservative. Styles are hastate and smooth with slight irregular inflatations on shaft, 397 (374–422) x 9.6 (9.6) m. Anisodiscorhabds (Fig. 6A) are straight having both a bulky spinose manubrium and a small crown­like apex at the center of the apical whorl. There is also no basal whorl of spines present above the manubrium as characteristic for this subgenus. All whorls are notched along rim and divided into four segments, each segment with denticulate margins. Median and subsidiary whorls have secondary spines; 55 (50–60) x 7 (7.2–9.6) m. A second category of microscleres, microacanthoxeas which are thin and slightly blunt on both ends are present; 52 (50–55) x 
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. The choanosomal architecture is a dense well developed irregular polygonal­meshed reticulation, becoming more regular and plumose towards the surface (
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). Microacanthoxeas lines the tracts of the choanosome. The surface of the ectosome is lined with an erect layer of single non­interlocking anisodiscorhabds, separated by a mushroom­like ectosomal membrane that is clearly visible. The sponge whose habitat is rocky flats, at 
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depth is often associated with coral, bryozoans and other sponges (after 
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).
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<emphasis id="B950760C1367FF80FEE7FC52340DFD0C" bold="true" box="[312,613,1004,1030]" pageId="57" pageNumber="58">Geographic distribution</emphasis>
(
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). South east coast of 
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.
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</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C33EF9951367FF80FEE7FBAA346CFFDC" pageId="57" pageNumber="58" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="8B9BAA1E1367FF80FEE7FBAA34B5FF3C" blockId="57.[264,1324,283,1750]" pageId="57" pageNumber="58">
<emphasis id="B950760C1367FF80FEE7FBAA37D9FD24" bold="true" box="[312,433,1044,1070]" pageId="57" pageNumber="58">Remarks.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B950760C1367FF80FE63FBAA3575FD27" box="[444,797,1044,1069]" italics="true" pageId="57" pageNumber="58">Latrunculia microacanthoxea</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is very similar to 
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<emphasis id="B950760C1367FF80FBDBFBAA32CEFD27" box="[1028,1190,1044,1069]" italics="true" pageId="57" pageNumber="58">L. lunaviridis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and is not easily differentiated from it in the field; both species are olive green and have similar surface morphologies of low cylindrical oscules and numerous short, thick­lipped craterlike areolate porefields. The species are differentiated primarily on the presence of curved polytylote styles (
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<emphasis id="B950760C1367FF80FE03FB0A3412FDC7" box="[476,634,1204,1229]" italics="true" pageId="57" pageNumber="58">L. lunaviridis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
), the morphology of the microscleres, and the presence of microacanthoxeas in 
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<emphasis id="B950760C1367FF80FDD7FB62349DFDFF" box="[520,757,1244,1269]" italics="true" pageId="57" pageNumber="58">L. microacanthoxea</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. In 
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<emphasis id="B950760C1367FF80FCF4FB623270FDFF" box="[811,1048,1244,1269]" italics="true" pageId="57" pageNumber="58">L. microacanthoxea</emphasis>
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the manubrium of the anisodiscorhabd is bulky and irregularly spinose as appose to being stout and expanded as in 
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<emphasis id="B950760C1367FF80FEF5FA9237A3FC4F" box="[298,459,1324,1349]" italics="true" pageId="57" pageNumber="58">L. lunaviridis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. In 
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<emphasis id="B950760C1367FF80FDD5FA92349FFC4F" box="[522,759,1324,1349]" italics="true" pageId="57" pageNumber="58">L. microacanthoxea</emphasis>
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the apex, which are separated from the apical whorl, forms a small crown­like tuft, unlike the broad crown­like structure developed by the fusion of the apex and apical whorl as in 
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<emphasis id="B950760C1367FF80FC80FAC2326DFC9F" box="[863,1029,1404,1429]" italics="true" pageId="57" pageNumber="58">L. lunaviridis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. An unusual and quite consistent histological feature is the sparseness of the ectosomal palisade in 
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<emphasis id="B950760C1367FF80FACCFA1A37BAFCEF" italics="true" pageId="57" pageNumber="58">L. microacanthoxea</emphasis>
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. The species are also well separated geographically, 
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<emphasis id="B950760C1367FF80FB8BFA72329CFCEF" box="[1108,1268,1484,1509]" italics="true" pageId="57" pageNumber="58">L. lunaviridis</emphasis>
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was found on the west coast while 
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<emphasis id="B950760C1367FF80FD4DFA4A35E9FF07" box="[658,897,1524,1549]" italics="true" pageId="57" pageNumber="58">L. microacanthoxea</emphasis>
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is known only from Tsitsikamma National Park on the southern coastline.
</paragraph>
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The only other species of 
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<emphasis id="B950760C1367FF80FDBBF9FA3486FF57" box="[612,750,1604,1629]" italics="true" pageId="57" pageNumber="58">Latrunculia</emphasis>
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known to contain a second category of unrelated microscleres are 
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<emphasis id="B950760C1367FF80FE0AF9D234DBFF8F" box="[469,691,1644,1669]" italics="true" pageId="57" pageNumber="58">L. oxydiscorhabda</emphasis>
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Alvarez 
<emphasis id="B950760C1367FF80FCFBF9D23533FF8F" box="[804,859,1644,1669]" italics="true" pageId="57" pageNumber="58">et al</emphasis>
. (2002)
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and the microacanthoxeas are quite different from the spinose amphiaster­like microscleres of 
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<emphasis id="B950760C1367FF80FB98F92A3342FFA7" box="[1095,1322,1684,1709]" italics="true" pageId="57" pageNumber="58">L. oxydiscorhabda</emphasis>
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Alvarez 
<emphasis id="B950760C1367FF80FEB3F90237C8FFDF" box="[364,416,1724,1749]" italics="true" pageId="57" pageNumber="58">et al</emphasis>
. (2002)
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.
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