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English: Leucosolenia (Clathrina) clathrus, natural size; showing reticulate form of colony, expanded and with open oscula on the left, contracted and with closed oscula on the right.

osc., Osculum.

cl. osc., Closed osculum.

contr. osc., Closed oscula in contracted part of colony.

sph., Sphincter of osculum.

div, Diverticula.

osc. div., Diverticula from which new oscula arise.
Date published 1911
Source “Sponges,” Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), v. 25, 1911, p. 716, fig. 2.
Author After Minchin, from Lankester's Treatise on Zoology.
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