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These are quite distinctive underwater; this patch was particularly interesting
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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Description: Another carnivorous sponge from cold water. Item Type: Image Title: Sponge Asbestopluma bihamatifera Copyright: SERPENT project Species: Asbestopluma bihamatifera Behaviour: Attached to seafloor. Probably feeding. Site: Atlantic -- North Sea -- West of Shetland -- TornadoNorth Sea -- West of Shetland -- Tornado Site Description: Seafloor Depth (m): 1050 Latitude: 60 deg 33' 44" N Longitude: 4 deg 27' 23" W Countries: UK -- West of Shetland Habitat: benthic Rig: Stena Carron Project Partners: OMV, Oceaneering, Stena ROV: Magnum 156 Deposited By: Dr Daniel Jones Deposited On: 21 December 2009
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Description: WHite sponge Polymastia sp. Item Type: Image Title: Sponge Copyright: SERPENT project Species: Polymastia sp. Site: Atlantic -- North Sea -- West of Shetland -- Faroe-Shetland Channel -- BrugdanNorth Sea -- West of Shetland -- Faroe-Shetland Channel -- Brugdan Site Description: Seafloor Depth (m): 480 Countries: Faroe Islands Habitat: Benthic Rig: Stena Don Project Partners: Statoil, Oceaneering ROV: Magnum 070, Sea Owl 590 Deposited By: Miss Moira MacLean Deposited On: 14 December 2010
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Lendrup S.f. Løgstør, Danmark
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Vandet Sø, Thy, Danmark
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Giant barrel sponge (Xestospongia muta) exhibiting exposed tissue where portions of the barrels have been sheared off by stormFrom
Wikimedia CommonsThe elkhorn coral colony at West Flower Garden Bank, located at approximately 27°54'33" N, 93°35'59" W, in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico, is situated behind the barrel sponge in this photo (October 2008) .
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Cobalt blue sponge (Acanthancora cyanocrypta), surrounding the cucumber Psolus chitinoidesOnce its bright red tentacles have been withdrawn, the cucumber Psolus chitinoides is difficult to see. It is surrounded by the cobalt sponge Acanthancora cyanocrypta, formerly Hymenamphiastra cyanocrypta.
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Tetilla longipilis Topsent.
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Spongia oculata, showing the orifices and currents outwards.. 2. Anastomosing horny substance of Spongia communis.; 3. Siliceous spiculum of S. papillaris.
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Euspongia officinalis, var. tuba.
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Hippospongia equina, var. elastica.
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Hircinia campana.
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Chalinopsilla imitans.
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Rob van Soest, José Luis Carballo, John Hooper
Zookeys
Figure 5.Map showing locality off the Mauritanian coast, where Cyamon amphipolyactinum sp. n. and Cyamon arguinense sp. n. were collected during the Netherlands Mauritania II Expedition, June 1988.
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Renata Manconi, Barbara Cadeddu, Fabio Ledda, Roberto Pronzato
Zookeys
Figure 12Euryspongia raouchensis. a underwater image of a living specimen b small conules (thin section by LM) with slightly protruding fibres at the sponge surface and skeletal network with cored ascending primaries and uncored secondaries. a, b modified from Vacelet et al. (2007).
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Figure 4.Placospongia carinata slide of holotype (BMNH, R1228, 86g, Bk.1390; R1275, PE01, Bk1390). A large tylostyle (scale=200 μ m) B small tylostyle (scale=50 μ m) C selenaster (scale=50 μ m) D close up of large tylostyle (scale=50 μ m) E close up of small tylostyle F streptasters (scale=50 μ m) G acanthose microrhabds H original slide of thick section of holotype I original slide of spicules of holotype.