Pseudoesperia carteri Dendy & Frederick, 1924: 501
Hooper & Wiedenmayer 1994: 289
Mycale parasitica
Mycale (Grapelia) carteri
Mycale species of the tropical Indo-West Pacific (Porifera, Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida)
Van, Rob W. M.
Aryasari, Ratih
De, Nicole J.
Zootaxa
2021
2021-01-19
4912
1
1
212
855QR
(Dendy & Frederick, 1924)
Dendy & Frederick
1924
[151,803,1441,1468]
Demospongiae
Mycalidae
Mycale
Animalia
Poecilosclerida
94
95
Porifera
species
carteri
Grapelia
Pseudoesperia carteri Dendy & Frederick, 1924: 501, pl. 26 fig. 6.12; Hooper & Wiedenmayer 1994: 289(reassigned to Mycale parasitica). Mycale (Grapelia) carteri; 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 µmin 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.) ancorinabut smaller, 11–13 µm(arranged in rosettes), anisochelae III similar to those of M. (G.) australisbut also smaller, 13–17 µm, sigmas, thin, 31–45 µm.
Distribution. Abrolhos Islands, West Australia.