Mycale (Grapelia) carteri (Dendy & Frederick, 1924)

Pseudoesperia carteri Dendy & Frederick, 1924: 501, pl. 26 fig. 6.12; Hooper & Wiedenmayer 1994: 289 (reassigned to Mycale parasitica).

Mycale (Grapelia) carteri; Hajdu1995: 85, figs 6.38–43.

Summary description (after Hajdu 1995). Irregularly shaped cushion of 5 x 3 x 3 cm. Surface rough, consistency soft. Ectosomal skeleton consist of a confused layer of tangential arranged megascleres, choanosomal skeleton with long ascending tracts of megascleres of up to 180 µm in diameter. Spicules mycalostyles, comparatively short and slim, 254–307 x 6–9 µm, anisochelae I with strongly curved shaft and unguiferous upper alae squarish lower alae, 41–48 µm (arranged in rosettes), anisochelae II similar to those of M. (G.) ancorina but smaller, 11–13 µm (arranged in rosettes), anisochelae III similar to those of M. (G.) australis but also smaller, 13–17 µm, sigmas, thin, 31–45 µm.

Distribution. Abrolhos Islands, West Australia.