Stylocordyla chupachups Uriz, Gili, Orejas & Perez-Porro 2011 ...

• Main Authors: Göcke, Christian, Janussen, Dorte
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2013
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Porifera; Demospongiae; Hadromerida; Stylocordylidae; Stylocordyla; Stylocordyla chupachups; Antarc*; Antarctic; Weddell Sea
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6145160; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6145160

Stylocordyla cf. chupachups Uriz, Gili, Orejas & Perez-Porro, 2011 (Fig. 3 E) Stylocordyla chupachups Uriz, Gili, Orejas & Perez-Porro, 2011, 247–251, figs. 3–7. Material. 3 specimens from station 048-1 (SMF 11771), 602.1 m, 70° 23.94' S, 8° 19.14' W, 12.01.2008. Description. Our specimens three very small, probably juvenile sponges, having rounded bodies on thin stalks. The largest specimen has a body diameter of 2 mm. Spicules are oxeas, often centrotylote, about 270 to 510 µm in length and 8 to 10 µm in diameter and filamentous oxeas with one end elongated, about 400 to 550 µm in length and 5 µm in diameter. Remarks. Due to the small size of the sponges, the number of spicules in our preparations is low and gaps in the spicule inventory are not surprising. The characters of our sponges are in well accordance with those described for the holotype by Uriz et al. (2011), with the exception that most spicules are significantly shorter than in the type. This might be caused by the juvenile state of our ... : Published as part of Göcke, Christian & Janussen, Dorte, 2013, Demospongiae of ANT XXIV / 2 (SYSTCO I) Expedition — Antarctic Eastern Weddell Sea, pp. 28-101 in Zootaxa 3692 (1) on page 44, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3692.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/249019 ...