Polymastia Bowerbank 1864, n. sp.

• Main Authors: Austin, William C., Ott, Bruce S., Reiswig, Henry M., Romagosa, Paula, G, Neil
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2014
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Porifera; Demospongiae; Hadromerida; Polymastiidae; Polymastia; Arctic; Antarctic; Austin; Canada; Pacific; British Columbia; Antarc*; Kamchatka
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6132518; https://zenodo.org/record/6132518

Genus Polymastia Bowerbank, 1864 Comparison of North Pacific Polymastia. Table 3 provides comparisons of known north Pacific Polymastia with regard to their spicules, water depth and geographic ranges. The first four species were recorded from the NE Pacific (de Laubenfels 1936, Lambe 1895, this paper). The last seven species in the table occur in the NW Pacific (Koltun 1959, 1962, 1966, 1970a, 1970 b; Plotkin 2002; Tanita et al. 1989). The fistulae shape and size of multifistulate Polymastia from the north Pacific are compared in Table 4, and the appearance of preserved multifistulate Polymastia from the NW Pacific is shown in Fig. 6. All species known from the NE Pacific are multifistulate, therefore north Pacific species with only a single fistula ( P. hispidissima Koltun 1966) were excluded from further consideration. Species Source Exhalant Larger Shape of Fistulae Mean Size of Than Inhalant Fistulae (LxW at Fistulae base) (mm) 1 Described specimens had only one fistula per sponge ? No data : Published as part of Austin, William C., Ott, Bruce S., Reiswig, Henry M., Romagosa, Paula & G, Neil, 2014, Taxonomic review of Hadromerida (Porifera, Demospongiae) from British Columbia, Canada, and adjacent waters, with the description of nine new species, pp. 1-84 in Zootaxa 3823 (1) on pages 18-22, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3823.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/286373 : {"references": ["Bowerbank, J. S. (1864) A Monograph of the British Spongiadae. Vol. 1. Ray Society, London, i - xx, pp. 1 - 290, pls. I - XXXVII.", "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. Carnegie Institute of Washington, 30, 1 - 225, pls. 1 - 22. [Tortugas Laboratory paper No. 467]", "Lambe, L. M. (1895) Sponges from the western coast of North America. Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, 1894, XII (4), 113 - 138, pls. II - IV.", "Koltun, V. M. (1959) Silicospongin sponges of the northern and far eastern seas of the USSR - Keys to the fauna of the USSR. Opredelieli po faune SSR, 67, 1 - 235. [in Russian]", "Koltun, V. M. (1962) Four-rayed and siliceous sponges of the Pacific shallows of Paramushir and Shumshu Islands. Studies of the U. S. S. R, 8, 181 - 191. [in Russian]", "Koltun, V. M. (1966) Four-rayed sponges of the north and far eastern seas of the U. S. S. R. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, 90, 1 - 107. [In Russian: Translated by Fisheries Research Board Canada, Ottawa, 1971]", "Koltun, V. M. (1970 a) Sponge fauna of the North-Western Pacific from the shallow waters to the hadal depths. In: V. G. Bogorov (Ed.), Fauna of the Kurile-Kamchatka Trench and its environment. Proceedings of the Institute of Oceanology of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 86, 165 - 221.", "Koltun, V. M. (1970 b) Sponges of the arctic and antarctic: a faunistic review. Symposia of the Zoological Society of London, 25, 285 - 297.", "Plotkin, A. S. (2002) Polymastiidae (Porifera, Demospongiae, Hadromerida) from the Kurile-Kamchatka Trench and adjacent deep waters of the North Pacific. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Science, 296, 103 - 110.", "Tanita, S. & Hoshino, T. (1989) The Demospongiae of Sagami Bay. Biological Laboratory, Imperial Household, Japan, 162 pp., 19 pls."]}