Dysidea kenkriegeri Lehnert & Stone, 2015, n. sp. ...

• Main Authors: Lehnert, Helmut, Stone, Robert P.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Porifera; Demospongiae; Dictyoceratida; Dysideidae; Dysidea; Dysidea kenkriegeri; Gulf of Alaska; Sedanka; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5617505; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5617505

Dysidea kenkriegeri n. sp. (Fig. 17) Material examined. Holotype: ZSM 20150393, collected by Dave Somerton with a research survey bottom trawl (haul #15) aboard the FV Alaska Provider; 1 June 2013, 93 m depth, 10.7 km south of Sedanka Island, east end of Unalaska Island, eastern Aleutian islands, Gulf of Alaska (53°36.6380' N, 166°12.4800' W). Water temperature = 4.5°C. Complete specimen in ethanol. Description. Habitus: The sponge consists of a group of agglutinated tubes starting from a single stalk with maximum height of 9.7 cm (Fig. 17 A). The stalk is 1 cm in diameter with a length of 1.8 cm before the sponge widens to a central area where seven tubes diverge. Single tubes are 0.8 to 1.4 cm in diameter with lengths between 2.7 and 4 cm. Thickness of the tube walls varies from 2–4 mm. The consistency of the tubes is soft and elastic while the stalk is hard and only slightly elastic. The color is light brown to beige and the surface is smooth and velvety, openings are recognisable at the top the tubes ... : Published as part of Lehnert, Helmut & Stone, Robert P., 2015, New species of sponges (Porifera, Demospongiae) from the Aleutian Islands and Gulf of Alaska, pp. 451-483 in Zootaxa 4033 (4) on pages 477-480, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4033.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/253595 ...