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Location: Plana Cays, Bahamas
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Habitat: deep reef
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Photographer: Tse-Lyn Loh
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Picture Taken On: 2011-07-21 09:29:24
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Picture Notes: no image notes
Color: cinnamon-tan
Morphology: spherical
Consistency: hard
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| /Spicule Images/: a) Oxeas I; b) anysostrongyloxeas II, c) enlarged ends of oxeas I; d) enlargement of an anysostrongyloxea II; e) plagiotriaenes; f) microscleres (sterrasters, developed and developing; spined asters in two types, oxyasters and strongyl- or oxyasters); g) enlargement of microscleres (rossettes of sterrasters on the left). Sample from the Bahamas. |
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| /Tissue Images/: a) Perpendicular section of the body (surface above; the dark curved line crossing the lower panel is a fracture on the slide cover slip glass); b) magnification at the surface (above), subsurface (mid) and choanosome (lower) showing sterrasters and the aligned cladomes of triaenes; the lower panel is a magnification of the choanosome. Sample from the Bahamas. |