- Surface:
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Texture: superficially smooth
Contour: Made of two types of regions: one domed or raised and very smooth but with well spaced deep furrows
- Oscula:
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Distribution: on top of domed areas
Shape: ovule to elongate
Diameter: 2--3 mm
- Ectosome:
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Architecture: Tangential layer of microspined Strongyles. Surface penetrated by Styles and Acanthostyles.
- Choanosome:
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Architecture: Multispicular 1o tracts with single and paucispicular connections forming a thick reticulation.
- Megasclere:
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Shape: Acanthostyles
Length: 140 -177- 268 µ
Width: 4.5-5.4 -6 µ
- Megasclere:
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Shape: Strongyles
Length: 125 - 398]-6 µ
Width: 1.5 -2.4- 3.5 µ
- Megasclere:
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Shape: Styles
Length: 121 -159- 194 µ
Width: 1.5 -2.4- 3.5 µ
- Megasclere:
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Shape: Styles
Length: 218 -296- 394 µ
- Microsclere:
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Shape: Palmate Isochelae
Length: 15 -19- 23 µ
- Microsclere:
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Shape: Toxas
Length: 36 -54- 85 µ
- Skeleton:
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Composition: Silicate
Architecture: Multispicular 1o tracts with single and paucispicular connections forming a thick reticulation.
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