Stoeba natalensis Burton, 1926

Van Soest, Rob W. M., Beglinger, Elly J. & De Voogd, Nicole J., 2010, Skeletons in confusion: a review of astrophorid sponges with (dicho-) calthrops as structural megascleres (Porifera, Demospongiae, Astrophorida), ZooKeys 68, pp. 1-88 : 43

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scientific name	Stoeba natalensis Burton, 1926
status

Treatment

Stoeba natalensis Burton 1926: 14.

Material examined.

None.

Description

(from Burton, 1926). Encrusting on Stelletta specimens. Dry condition. Skeleton made up by radially arranged dichotriaenes with rhabd (720 × 54 µm) approx. twice as long as the cladome (approx. 360 µm), making them long-shafted triaenes rather than dichocalthrops. Microscleres are called ataxasters 'passing into tuberculate microrhabds’, 5-8 µm long.

Habitat.

Deeper water.

Distribution.

Natal coast, South Africa.

Remarks.

This is a dubious Dercitus (Stoeba) species and it needs redescription. Probably it should be assigned to an ancorinid genus.

Family Calthropellidae