Description
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Growth form encrusting (6 × 4 cm, ca. 3–5 mm thick). Surface covered of small conules (0.8–1.2 mm apart) each with a slightly protruding fibre. Ectosome unarmoured. Oscules (0.8–1 mm in diameter) numerous, circular and irregularly scattered. Colour cream in vivo with the tips of conules whitish, clear brown in alcohol. Consistency fleshy, easily torn. Choanocyte chambers of the dysideid type, numerous, large (75–90 µm in diameter). Skeleton primary fibres heavily cored (125–150 µm in diameter), ascending singly from substratum to surface, rather regularly spaced, ending as conules. Secondary fibres (40–70 µm in diameter) generally clear of inclusions can have a poorly developed central core of foreign material.
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- Renata Manconi, Barbara Cadeddu, Fabio Ledda, Roberto Pronzato
- bibliographic citation
- Manconi R, Cadeddu B, Ledda F, Pronzato R (2013) An overview of the Mediterranean cave-dwelling horny sponges (Porifera, Demospongiae) ZooKeys 281: 1–68
- author
- Renata Manconi
- author
- Barbara Cadeddu
- author
- Fabio Ledda
- author
- Roberto Pronzato