taxonID	type	description	language	source
DD1F87FFFFD17021FF53C854D8D5871F.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined. Holotype RMNH POR. 5490, Indonesia, Halmahera mainland Tanjung Sidangolo, stat TER. 020, N 0 ° 53 ' 39.6 ", E 127 ° 29 ' 28.1 ", 05 - 11 - 2009, depth 27 m. Fieldnr # TER 20 / 051109 / 241, coll. Y. Tuti Paratypes: RMNH POR. 5509, Indonesia, Halmahera, Ternate Sulamadah I., stat TER. 022, N 0 ° 52 ' 3.6 ", E 127 ° 19 ' 33.1 ", 06 - 11 - 2009, depth 20 m, Fieldnr # TER 22 / 061109 / 260, coll. K. van Egmond; RMNH POR. 5475 Indonesia, Halmahera, Tidore SW of Tobala, stat TER. 019, N 0 ° 44 ' 56.6 ", E 127 ° 23 ' 13.5 ", 04 - 11 - 2009, depth 30 m, Fieldnr # TER 19 / 041109 / 226, coll. K. van Egmond. Other Material examined: Psammochela rigida (Bowerbank, 1875), unreg. type BMNH (as Halichondria rigida). Psammochela fibrosa (Ridley, 1884), unreg. type BMNH (as Phoriospongia fibrosa), Torres Strait, Northern Great Barrier Reef. Psammochela elegans Dendy, 1916, Lectotype BMNH 1920.12.9.36, Indian Ocean, India. Psammochela chaliniformis (Dendy, 1896), BMNH 1886: 12: 15: 341 (as Dysidea chaliniformis). Psammochela psammodes (Hentschel, 1911), Holotype ZMB 4414 (as Desmacidon psammodes). Psammochela psammodes, ZMA POR. 9463, Snellius II, 14.10.1984, Indonesia, Sulawesi, NE Take Bone Rate, stn. 222, 06 ° 31.5 ’ S 121 ° 08 ’ E, 58 m, coll. R. W. M. van Soest. Psammochela elegans, ZMA POR. 9053, Snellius II 16.09.1984, Indonesia, Nusa Tenggara, NE Coast of Sumba, stn. 0 68, 09 ° 57 ’ S 120 ° 48 ’ E, light red, sandy bottom with sponges and gorgonians, dredged at 50 m, coll. R. W. M. van Soest. Description. Shape: The holotype consists of a part of a larger specimen (see fig. 1 a and 1 b). The specimen is bushy with anastomosing thorny branches with pointy endings. Raised oscules (diameter of 2 – 5 mm) along one side of the branch every 2 – 3 cm. The surface is irregularly rugose and smooth in between and the ectosomal reticulation is clearly visible in live and preserved specimens. Colour is pale salmon pink to light orange alive, grayish in spirit. The texture is compressible, brittle. Skeleton. Ectosomal skeleton consists of a large irregular meshed reticulation outlined by large sand grains, other foreign material and thin strongyles, meshes 0.4 – 1 cm in diameter with few microscleres in the soft tissue between the fibres. Choanosomal skeleton is an isotropic to irregular reticulation of spicule tracts mixed with foreign material. The mega-and microscleres are obscured by the large size of the foreign materials. * holotype Spicules. Thin strongyles (120 – 155 x 2.5 μm), two sizes of sigmas (I 25 – 40 μm; II 12.5 – 20 μm) and spatulate and / or equianchorate chelae (15 – 20 μm) (see table 1 and fig. 2). Ecology. Reef slopes and sandy bottom 10 – 40 m deep. Geographic distribution. Specimens were found near the island of Ternate, Tidore & Halmahera in the northern Moluccas, Indonesia. Etymology. Psammochela tutiae is named after Ir. Yosephine Tuti, who collected and photographed the type specimen. She is also acknowledged for all the logistic support provided in the past years to make our biodiversity studies in Indonesia possible.	en	De, Nicole J. (2012): On sand-bearing myxillid sponges, with a description of Psammochela tutiae sp. nov. (Poecilosclerida, Myxillina) from the northern Moluccas, Indonesia. Zootaxa 3155: 21-28, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.208938
