Mycale (Grapelia) carteri ( Dendy & Frederick, 1924 )

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 : 95

publication ID

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

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9536C1CF-4AEF-47F8-959B-48CD7A5392D8

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4473228

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/361087A7-FF9B-FFFE-55AB-FA0452B7CA6A

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Plazi

scientific name

Mycale (Grapelia) carteri ( Dendy & Frederick, 1924 )
status

 

Mycale (Grapelia) carteri ( Dendy & Frederick, 1924) View in CoL

Pseudoesperia carteri Dendy & Frederick, 1924: 501 View in CoL , pl. 26 fig. 6.12; Hooper & Wiedenmayer 1994: 289 (reassigned to Mycale parasitica View in CoL ).

Mycale (Grapelia) carteri View in CoL ; Hajdu1995: 85, figs 6.38–43.

Summary description (after Hajdu 1995). Irregularly shaped cushion of 5 x 3 x 3 cm. Surface rough, consistency soft. Ectosomal skeleton consist of a confused layer of tangential arranged megascleres, choanosomal skeleton with long ascending tracts of megascleres of up to 180 µm in diameter. Spicules mycalostyles, comparatively short and slim, 254–307 x 6–9 µm, anisochelae I with strongly curved shaft and unguiferous upper alae squarish lower alae, 41–48 µm (arranged in rosettes), anisochelae II similar to those of M. (G.) ancorina but smaller, 11–13 µm (arranged in rosettes), anisochelae III similar to those of M. (G.) australis but also smaller, 13–17 µm, sigmas, thin, 31–45 µm.

Distribution. Abrolhos Islands, West Australia.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Porifera

Class

Demospongiae

Order

Poecilosclerida

Family

Mycalidae

Genus

Mycale

Loc

Mycale (Grapelia) carteri ( Dendy & Frederick, 1924 )

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

Pseudoesperia carteri

Hooper, J. N. A. & Wiedenmayer, F. 1994: 289
Dendy, A. & Frederick, L. M. 1924: 501
1924
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