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-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Austin [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 1:04 PM
To: Sponge biology and chemistry list
Subject: RE: Hymenamphiastra sinonimia


Juan,

I am not aware of any synonym for Hymeniamphiastra cyanocrypta.  However,
the size and types of spicules are similar to Hymedesmia aenigma decribed by
Lundbeck in 1910.  This warrants closer examination. The colour
is certainly striking, and unlike that of any other sponge I have seen in
the cold
temperate NE Pacific.  However, as Hartman notes in Light's Manual 1975, the
color may also be light orange.  Incidentally the size of the acanthostyles
in material
I have looked at both in Cal and BC are larger (to 310 and 380 microns)than
might be surmized
from Hartman's note of mean length of 150-190 microns.

We have found it in British Columbia in an intertidal cave (Execution Rock)
in Barkley Sound and diving off Cadman Island, Kanu Inlet, Queen Charlotte
Islands.
Jeff Goddard found a yellow form at Cape Arago, Oregon.  While the blue
color is striking,
the yellow or light orange form is likely to escape the notice of a casual
observer.


Bill Austin

-----Original Message-----
From: Sponge biology and chemistry list
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Juan Antonio Fernández
Sent: Monday, January 20, 1997 1:54 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Hymenamphiastra sinonimia


Dear Spongers:

        I have found a small and very deep blue sponge which fits the
description
(and photograph) that Morris and coolaborators have in their book for
Hymenamphiastra cyanocrypta.

        I am trying to find articles related with it but seems to be not to
much
about it (CERO results in EBSCO Host On line).

        Does anybody know if there is sinonimia for Hymenamphiastra
cyanocrypta?.

        Thanks in advance

        M.C. Juan Antonio Fernández
        O C E A N O L O G I S T

        Profesor - Investigador
        Facultad de Ciencias Marinas
        Universidad Autónoma de Baja California

        Apartado Postal 453
        22810, CENTRO
        Ensenada, B.C.
        M E X I C O

        tel: (6) 174 - 45 - 70 ext 120
        fax: (6) 174 - 41 - 03

        http://fcm.ens.uabc.mx/direccion/fcm/profesores/jafernan/apango.htm


-----Original Message-----
From: Sponge biology and chemistry list
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Dirk Bonse
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 7:53 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Sponge mapping - forwarded from Dan Diresta


dear bernard (& dorte & Kerim),

i´m also working on small scale sponge mapping using 30x30 cm frames - i´m
doing this in lake baikal. for coverage analysis i use programs like arcview
and envi (interested how i´m doin´this?), furthermore i´m developing a
method to measure growth rates using close range photogrammetry - however,
i´m also interested in these articles or an email adress.

my adress:

Dirk Bonse
FU Berlin
Institut fuer geologische Wissenschaften
FR Palaeontologie
Malteserstr. 74-100
12249 Berlin

thank you, dirk