Euchelipluma Topsent 1909

• Main Authors: Ekins, Merrick, Erpenbeck, Dirk, Hooper, John N. A.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2020
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Porifera; Demospongiae; Poecilosclerida; Guitarridae; Euchelipluma; Merrick; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3846457; https://zenodo.org/record/3846457

Genus Euchelipluma Topsent, 1909 Euchelipluma Topsent, 1909: 18. Desmatiderma Topsent, 1928b: 308. Diagnosis: Cladorhizidae pinnate or branching, with placochelae, smooth arcuate/ palmate isochelae and sigmancistras (from Hestetun et al. 2016b). Type species: Euchelipluma pristina Topsent, 1909 (by original designation). Remarks. Euchelipluma currently contains four species having placochelae similar to those of Guitarra , and therefore traditionally placed within the family Guitarridae. However, Hestetun et al. (2016a) recently proposed reallocating the genus to Cladorhizidae based on its general morphology, the presence of sigmancistras in addition to arcuate isochelae, and molecular data, indicating a close affinity to other carnivorous sponge genera, closest to but differentiated from Abyssocladia by also possessing placochelae. Current described species are E. arbuscular (Topsent, 1928c) E. congeri de Laubenfels, 1936, E. elongata Lehnert, Stone & Heimler, 2006, and E. pristina Topsent, 1909 (Table 17). : Published as part of Ekins, Merrick, Erpenbeck, Dirk & Hooper, John N. A., 2020, Carnivorous sponges from the Australian Bathyal and Abyssal zones collected during the RV Investigator 2017 Expedition, pp. 1-159 in Zootaxa 4774 (1) on page 149, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4774.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3825140 : {"references": ["Topsent, E. (1909) Etude sur quelques Cladorhiza et sur Euchelipluma pristina n. g. et n. sp. Bulletin de l'Institut oceanographique, Monaco, 151, 1 - 23, pls. I-II.", "Topsent, E. (1928 b) Eponges des cotes du Japon. Collection du Musee Oceanographique de Monaco. Annales de l'Institut oceanographique, 6 (2), 297 - 319, pls. I-III.", "Hestetun, J. T., Pomponi, S. A. & Rapp, H. T. (2016 b) The cladorhizid fauna (Porifera, Poecilosclerida) of the Caribbean and adjacent waters. Zootaxa, 4175 (6), 521 - 538. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4175.6.2", "Hestetun, J. T., Vacelet, J., Boury-Esnault, N., Borchiellini, C., Kelly, M., Rios, P., Cristobo, F. J. & Rapp, H. T. (2016 a) The systematics of carnivorous sponges. Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution, 94, 327 - 345. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. ympev. 2015.08.022", "Topsent, E. (1928 c) Une Mycaline productrice de desmes Desmatiderma arbuscula, n. g., n. sp. Bulletin de l'Institut Oceanographique, Monaco, 519, 1 - 8", "Laubenfels, M. W. de (1936) A Discussion of the Sponge Fauna of the Dry Tortugas in Particular and the West Indies in General, with Material for a Revision of the Families and Orders of the Porifera. In: Carnegie Institute of Washington Publication 467. Tortugas Laboratory Paper, 30, pp. 1 - 225, pls. 1 - 22.", "Lehnert, H., Stone, R. & Heimler, W. (2006) New species of deep-sea demosponges (Porifera) from the Aleutian Islands (Alaska, USA). Zootaxa, 1250, 1 - 35."]}