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A sponge
Sponge & Cnidarian
A sponge
Stylocordyla borealis (Lovén, 1868)
WoRMS AphialID
134240
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Sample IDs
ARC81489 https://bench.boldsystems.org/index.php/MAS_DataRetrieval_OpenSpecimen?selectedrecordid=ATCSP137-24
Collected
Scotian Shelf
Distinguishing Features
• External appearance: Beige to brown sponge with soft oval body (around 5 cm long) and long thin stalk.
• Skeleton: The choanosomal skeleton is radiate with columns of oxeas. These protrude through the sponge surface and a palisade of smaller oxeas between them forms the ectosomal skeleton.
• Spicules: Three categories of oxea: 790–2930 by 10–47 μm, 400–1140 by 11-13 μm, and 340-450 by 4–4.5 μm and microxea 70–100 by 1.5–2 μm.
Habitat
Typically found in soft sediment environments attached to cobbles and pebbles. Normally at depths > 100 m.
Geographic Range
Type locality northern Norway. Other records from the north-east Atlantic and Arctic. Common in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and present on the Scotian Shelf.
Fun Fact
Several records of this species were previously made from the Antarctic, but these have recently been redescribed as Stylocordyla chupachups. This new species is named after the popular confectionary.
Barcode Distribution
BIN contains one other specimen, location not given.
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