| Submitted |
| Amorphinopsis maculosa |
| 1991-11-23 |
| Northern central region, Gulf of Carpentaria (9° 36' 00'' S, 136° 6' 00'' E) |
| 52m |
| Cook, S.D. on CSIRO RV Southern Surveyor |
| G300854 |
| Queensland Museum |
| EtOH |
| JNA Hooper |
Morphological description (show/hide)
| massive, buttressed, indistinct shape, thickly encrusting | | light yellow brown alive (Z1142), darker insi | | 1-2 mm on top | | firm but elastic consistency | | optically smooth, microscopically slightly hispid, lumpy, opaque, membranous | | Dense, confused reticulation of spicules. Mesohyl collagen is light and homogeneous, with some light pigmentation | | criss-crossed bundles of spicules, very light collagen, distinct skin. Tangential or paratangential layer of spicules with some spicules from choanosome arising and penetrating through the outer membrane | | 2 categories of oxeas and occasionally small styles in some specimens | | Raphides - only occasional |
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Reference (show/hide)
| Erpenbeck D, Hall K, Alvarez B, Büttner G, Sacher K, Schätzle S, Schuster A, Vargas S, Hooper JNA, Wörheide G (in press) The phylogeny of halichondrid demosponges: past and present re-visited with DNA-barcoding data. The phylogeny of halichondrid demosponges: past and present re-visited with DNA-barcoding data. Organisms Diversity & Evolution. |
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