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Macroscopic features. Thick, encrusting, unbranched form, 20 × 20 × 4 cm thick in holotype. Surface with abundant, small (1 mm diam.) and large (1 cm × 1–3 cm) irregular tubercles (Fig. 2A). Consistency preserved: moderately compressible but tough. Oscula numerous, flush with surface and ranging from 0.2 to 4 mm diameter. Aquiferous canals tangential with those near surface leading to oscula. Orange colour in life (Fig. 2A), light tan in alcohol.
Microscopic features. Ostia about 0.5 mm diam. in situ penetrate a thin surface membrane between lobes (Fig. 2B); weakly developed plumoreticulate skeleton of 50-100 um diameter fibers extend from base to surface; uni or pauci spicular cross connections (Fig. 2C); halichondroid (confused) skeleton toward the base. No specialized ectosomal skeleton and no axial skeleton.
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- William C. Austin, Bruce S. Ott, Henry M. Reiswig, Paula Romagosa, Neil G. McDaniel
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- Austin W, Ott B, Reiswig H, Romagosa P, McDaniel N (2013) Two new species in the family Axinellidae (Porifera, Demospongiae) from British Columbia and adjacent waters ZooKeys 338: 11–28
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- William C. Austin
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- Bruce S. Ott
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- Henry M. Reiswig
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- Paula Romagosa
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- Neil G. McDaniel