Isabella Schlacher-Hoenlinger, Pisera & Hooper, 2005

Ekins, Merrick, Erpenbeck, Dirk, Wörheide, Gert & Hooper, John N. A., 2016, A new species of lithistid sponge hiding within the Isabella mirabilis species complex (Porifera: Demospongiae: Tetractinellida) from seamounts of the Norfolk Ridge, Zootaxa 4136 (3), pp. 433-460 : 435

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4136.3.2
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:DBD1B993-6DF8-4E23-BD27-FA5E0036EE0B
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5695897
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D587E2-FFF9-5634-E2A9-3CDCFA5F24B5
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Isabella Schlacher-Hoenlinger, Pisera & Hooper, 2005
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Genus Isabella Schlacher-Hoenlinger, Pisera & Hooper, 2005 View in CoL

Definition. Massive shallow cup shaped maroon brown lithistids that discolour ethanol into a purplish brown colour. Ectosomal megascleres are smooth ectosomal dichotriaenes , occasional triaenes, one to two types of large oxeas and dicranoclone desmas, microscleres are a combination of centrotylote microacanthoxeas, smooth microxeas, spirasters and streptasters (modified from Schlacher-Hoenlinger et al. 2005 and Carvalho et al. 2015).

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Porifera
Class	Demospongiae
Order	Tetractinellida
SubOrder	Astrophorina
Family	Corallistidae
Genus	Isabella

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