Rossella podagrosa Kirkpatrick 1907 ...

• Main Authors: Göcke, Christian, Janussen, Dorte, Reiswig, Henry M., Jarrell, Shannon C., Dayton, Paul K.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Porifera; Hexactinellida; Lyssacinosida; Rossellidae; Rossella; Rossella podagrosa; McMurdo Sound; Ross Island; Burton; Dayton; Armitage; Hut Point; Cape Armitage; Winter Quarters Bay; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5635480; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5635480

Rossella podagrosa Kirkpatrick, 1907 (Fig. 1–2, Tab. 1) Rossella podagrosa Kirkpatrick, 1907: 11, pl. 3, figs. 2–3, pl. 5, fig.1. Topsent 1917: 14. Tabachnick 2002: 1447. Rossella podagrosa tenuis Topsent, 1916: 4; 1917: 15. Not Rossella racovitzae Burton 1929: 407 –409, fig. 1, pl. 1; 1932: 256–257; 1934: 7. Koltun 1976: 165 (pars). Barthel & Tendal 1994: 92 –95, figs. 35–36, pl. 3–4. Göcke & Janussen 2013: 116 –120, fig. 2 F, 7, tab. 6). Material. 1 Specimen (P 1635) from 30 m depth at Cape Armitage, Ross Island, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica; BMNH 1908.2.5.6 (type) from Discovery Collection, Winter Quarters Bay, Hut Point, D Net, 15.12.1902. Description. The sponge body is of a slender, upright shape with one round osculum at the top. It usually bears numerous buds that originate from the basal region of the mother and grow from ~ 3–5 mm to> 3 cm prior to separation. The sponges show an unusual fast growth rate increasing their length by as much as 16 cm in a decade and have been shown to increase ... : Published as part of Göcke, Christian, Janussen, Dorte, Reiswig, Henry M., Jarrell, Shannon C. & Dayton, Paul K., 2015, Rossella podagrosa Kirkpatrick, 1907 — A valid species after all, pp. 169-177 in Zootaxa 4021 (1) on pages 171-175, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4021.1.7, http://zenodo.org/record/237104 ...