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Shaft of Anchorate Clavule smooth WITHOUT large thorns. |
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Bowerbank, 1862 (Carter, 1885) |
Sponge:
A network of branching and anastomosing tubes 8 -20 mm diameter; wall about 1 mm thick.
Color: Beige ?Alive.
Spicules: Megascleres:
(1) Uncinates:
1.07 -1.90- 2.35 mm.
Mesoscleres:
(1) Pentactins (tangential ray length):
158 -220- 280 um.
(proximal ray length) 218 -269- 325 um.
(2) Pileate Clavules:
204 -256- 285 um.
(3) Anchorate Clavules:
213 -252- 305 um.
Microscleres:
(1) Oxyhexasters:
(diameter) 54 -68- 80 um.
Skeleton:
Framework one layer thick at the growing margin.
Distribution: Central California.
Depth: Deep water.
Note: Data from Carter's Japan specimen and from California RMM-1-6417. A cosmopolitan species sometime divided into 10 subspecies.
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Shaft of Anchorate Clavule with a few large thorns.
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