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Porifera name details
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Identification Oxymycale stecarmia (type USNM 22890) from SW Ponapé (approx. 6.94°N 158.28°E) is a semi-encrusting sponge specimen of 2 x 4 x 1 cm, of which the skeleton is a haplosclerid reticulation of mucronate oxeas 150–185 x 4 μm in size. The skeleton is largely unispicular, but there are primary tracts of up to 3 spicules in diameter, with little binding spongin, without microscleres. Overall it is Haliclona-like, but on the surface there are small clumps of Mycale spicules, including ‘normal’ anisochelae of 47–51 μm, two size classes of cleistochelae 16–23 μm and 12– 15 μm, sigmas of 22–30 μm, and a few toxodragmas of 50–52 μm. We conclude that this ‘species’ is predominantly a Haliclona spec. with just some contamination from a nearby growing Mycale (Naviculina) aff. cleistochela. [details]
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