. Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale Giacomo Doria. Natural history. SPONGES FROM EAST AFRICA 321 Fig. 57 - Spicules of Calyx nyaliensis sp. n. Scale: 50 \ Fig. 58 - Calyx nyaliensis sp. n., the holotype. Scale: 1 cm. The specimen consists of lobate eminences bearing at their top an oscule 5 to 7 mm wide. The colour in life, not uniform, was greenish to bluish ( to 589). The specimen, now dry, is cream coloured, compressible and fragile. The ectosomal skeleton, not separable, is a very fine tangential reticulation of single oxeas joined at their apices. The choanosomal skele
. Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale Giacomo Doria. Natural history. SPONGES FROM EAST AFRICA 321 Fig. 57 - Spicules of Calyx nyaliensis sp. n. Scale: 50 \ Fig. 58 - Calyx nyaliensis sp. n., the holotype. Scale: 1 cm. The specimen consists of lobate eminences bearing at their top an oscule 5 to 7 mm wide. The colour in life, not uniform, was greenish to bluish ( to 589). The specimen, now dry, is cream coloured, compressible and fragile. The ectosomal skeleton, not separable, is a very fine tangential reticulation of single oxeas joined at their apices. The choanosomal skeleton consists of strong plurispicular tracts of oxeas running irregularly, joined by a reticulation of single oxeas. The tracts are 450-1200 ^.m thick. Spongin is not apparent. The spicules are oxeas slightly curved, measuring 160-180 x 9 (im. Annali del Mm. Civ. St. Nat. "G. Doria", Vol. LXXXIX. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Museo civico di storia naturale Giacomo Doria (Genoa, Italy). Genova : Stab. tipo-litografico P. Pellas Fu L.
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