Description
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Boring sponge in alpha growth form, occupying a surface of 1 cm2 in a section of conglomerate. Colour beige in dry state.
Skeleton. Not observed.
Spicules. Macroscleres: tylostyles to subtylostyles straight or slightly curved, 132 (225) 287 × 5 (6) 7.5 μm. Heads with a rounded or oval tyle, sometimes in terminal position but more often shifted along the shaft (Figs 4A, B, C). Microscleres: spirasters of various shape and thickness, straight or curved, 10 (26.5) 45 × 1.25 (10) 17.5 μm. The most abundant have scattered conical spines (Figs 4D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K) and numerous are amphiaster-like (Figs 4H, I, K). The smaller ones are microspinated (Fig. 4J, L).
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- Marco Bertolino, Carlo Cerrano, Giorgio Bavestrello, Mirco Carella, Maurizio Pansini, Barbara Calcinai
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- Bertolino M, Cerrano C, Bavestrello G, Carella M, Pansini M, Calcinai B (2013) Diversity of Porifera in the Mediterranean coralligenous accretions, with description of a new species ZooKeys 336: 1–37
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- Marco Bertolino
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- Carlo Cerrano
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- Giorgio Bavestrello
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- Mirco Carella
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- Maurizio Pansini
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- Barbara Calcinai
Distribution
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This is a Mediterranean endemic species (Pansini and Longo 2008) originally described from Corsica (Strait of Bonifacio), where it is known to bore into calcareous rocks and mollusc shells (Topsent 1932). This is a new record for the Ligurian Sea (Gallinara Island) and the coralligenous assemblage and the first finding after the original description.
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- cc-by-3.0
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- Marco Bertolino, Carlo Cerrano, Giorgio Bavestrello, Mirco Carella, Maurizio Pansini, Barbara Calcinai
- bibliographic citation
- Bertolino M, Cerrano C, Bavestrello G, Carella M, Pansini M, Calcinai B (2013) Diversity of Porifera in the Mediterranean coralligenous accretions, with description of a new species ZooKeys 336: 1–37
- author
- Marco Bertolino
- author
- Carlo Cerrano
- author
- Giorgio Bavestrello
- author
- Mirco Carella
- author
- Maurizio Pansini
- author
- Barbara Calcinai