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Type specimens from Oman
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SEM image of cross section of holotype ZMA Por 17556 showing tetractines protruding in the tubar lumen.
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Habitus of holotype (upper left), paratype (upper right), and spicules.
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SEM images of surface, cross section and spicules
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RMNH Por. 6572, from Lembeh Strait, Indonesia (photo N.J. de Voogd)
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Original illustration of type material.
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SEM photos of spicules, taken from Díaz et al. 2007.
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SEM images of spicules.
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Habit and skeleton, A: flabellate specimen ZMA Por. 14023 from Darwin, North Australia (scale bar = 1 cm), B: branching digitate specimen RMNH Por. 978 infested with zoanthids from Aru Islands Indonesia (scale bar = 1 cm), C: peripheral skeleton of ZMA Por. 14023 showing raspailiid character of long thin style sheathed in a bouquet of short thin styles, D: thick section of choanosomal skeleton of ZMA Por. 14023.
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Holotype ZMA Por. 09097 (preserved), from Indonesia
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Holotype RMNH Por. 9921.
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Habitus in situ, photo N.J. de Voogd
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RMNH Por. 6572 from N Sulawesi (photo N.J. de Voogd)
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In situ photo of ZMA Por. 11524 from Granite Harbour, Intake Jetty, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, coll. & photo Bill Baker, field nr. ASC-III-96-35, 16 October 1996.
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Type specimen in alcohol
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ZMA holotype from Oman. Photo R.G. Moolenbeek.
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ZMA Por. 14023, A: detail of rounded end of long thin style, B: details of short thin style, C: oxea, C1 details of apices of oxeas showing minute spines, D: three- and four claded polyactines, D1 detail of apex of lateral clade of polyactine showing minute spines, E: microphoto of trichodragmas, E1 individual raphide dissociated trichodragma showing rugosities.
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sponge is overgrowing a rodolith
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Holotype RMNH Por. 5259, from Halmaheira, Indonesia (photo N.J. de Voogd)
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SEM images of spicules of holotype RMNH Por. 9921.
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Light microscopy cross section and SEM images of spicules