Mycale (Carmia) mytilorum Annandale, 1914

Van, Rob W. M., Aryasari, Ratih & De, Nicole J., 2021, Mycale species of the tropical Indo-West Pacific (Porifera, Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida), Zootaxa 4912 (1), pp. 1-212 : 84

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4912.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4450984

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scientific name

Mycale (Carmia) mytilorum Annandale, 1914
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Mycale (Carmia) mytilorum Annandale, 1914 View in CoL

Mycale mytilorum Annandale, 1914: 152 View in CoL , pl. X fig. 1, pl. XI figs 2–3; Burton 1937: 24; Ali 1956: 284 (misspelled as mytiliorum); Pattanayak 2009: 25.

Summary description. Thin brick-red crust on Mytilus mussels. Skeleton consists of vertical bundles of mycalostyles, pushing up the ectosomal membrane, but no tangential ectosomal skeleton is present. Mycalostyles 180–260 x 4–5.5 µm, scarce anisochelae I (not in rosettes) 19 µm, sigmas 40 µm. No toxas.

Distribution. Madras (= Chennai) Harbor, 1–2 m depth.

Comment. Hard to distinguish from e.g. M. (C.) maunakea , but that species has pink life color.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Porifera

Class

Demospongiae

Order

Poecilosclerida

Family

Mycalidae

Genus

Mycale

Loc

Mycale (Carmia) mytilorum Annandale, 1914

Van, Rob W. M., Aryasari, Ratih & De, Nicole J. 2021
2021
Loc

Mycale mytilorum

Pattanayak, J. G. & Patnayak, J. G. 2009: 25
Ali, M. A. 1956: 284
Burton, M. 1937: 24
Annandale, N. 1914: 152
1914
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