Stylissa carteri (Dendy, 1889)

Fassbender, Nico, Stefanoudis, Paris V, Filander, Zoleka Nontlantla, Gendron, Gilberte, Mah, Christopher L, Mattio, Lydiane, Mortimer, Jeanne A, Moura, Carlos J, Samaai, Toufiek, Samimi-Namin, Kaveh, Wagner, Daniel, Walton, Rowana & Woodall, Lucy C, 2021, Reef benthos of Seychelles - A field guide, Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 65970-65970 : 65970

Stylissa carteri (Dendy, 1889)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Taxon: scientificName: Stylissa carteri; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Porifera; class: Demospongiae; order: Scopalinida; family: Scopalinidae; genus: Stylissa; scientificNameAuthorship: Dendy, 1889; Location: waterBody: Indian Ocean; country: Seychelles; locality: Aldabra N 1, Aldabra W 1, Alphonse N 1, Astove W 1, D'Arros N 1, Desroches S 1 ; minimumDepthInMeters: 10 m; maximumDepthInMeters: 72 m; locationRemarks: First Descent : Seychelles Expedition ; Identification : identifiedBy: Nico Fassbender , Toufiek Samaai , Paris Stefanoudis ; dateIdentified: 2019, 2020; identificationRemarks: identified only from imagery; Event : samplingProtocol: Submersible OR Remotely Operated Vehicle OR SCUBA; Record Level: basisOfRecord: Human observation

Notes

Flabellate: either fan-shaped or branching. Forms short stalk with fleshy, blade-like lobes or erect, expanded leaves. Maximum recorded size: 31 cm across. The surface appears rough and crinkly, corrugated longitudinally with shallow ridges. Colour orange to pink.

Clathria (Thalysias) vulpine is a closely related species that cannot be distinguished from S. carteri without examining spicules under the microscope; however, since it has its type locality in Australia, we are considering most specimens observed to belong to S. carteri (Fig. 169).