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NIWA 93474
NIWA 93474
Description Deck image showing midnight blue colouration and palmate morphology: CRRF describes it as a "dark, royal blue (not navy blue), (palmate) fan sponge with pointed tips, 20 cm high and about 1 cm thick, that tears easily, and which has a fleshy surface"

Localtion: Three Kings Islands, 2.5 nm east of Great Island, NIWA Station Z15944; 34.170° S, 172.210° E; depth 200 m; 16 Apr. 1999; CRRF 0CDN6626, NIWA 93474 leg.; dredge.

(Photo: Lori J. Bell, CRRF) Author Cárdenas, Paco JPG file - 3.10 MB - 3 072 x 2 048 pixels added on 2022-10-22145 viewsPorifera taxa Lamellomorpha strongylata Bergquist, 1968checked Cárdenas, Paco 2022-10-22 Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 License
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