Raspailia (Hymeraphiopsis) irregularis Hentschel 1914 ...

• Main Authors: Göcke, Christian, Janussen, Dorte
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2013
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Porifera; Demospongiae; Poecilosclerida; Raspailiidae; Raspailia; Raspailia irregularis; Antarc*; Antarctic; Weddell Sea
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6145194; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6145194

Raspailia (Hymeraphiopsis) irregularis Hentschel, 1914 (Fig. 3 G) Raspailia irregularis Hentschel, 1914: 121, pl. 8, fig. 6. Hooper 2002b: 479–480, fig. 5. Synonymy: Eurypon miniaceum sensu Burton, 1932: 325. Koltun 1964: 85–86, pl. 13, figs. 1–3, 1976: 192. (Not Eurypon miniaceum Thiele, 1905: 446). Material. 10 specimens from station 048-1 (SMF 11806, 11813, 11820, 11828, 11829, 11830, 11846), 602.1 m, 70° 23.94' S, 8° 19.14' W, 12.01.2008. Description. Sponges of upright, arborescent growth, attached to hard substrates such as stones or bivalve shells. Surfaces bristled by protruding styles. Skeleton irregular with spicules usually oriented towards the outside, small acanthotylostyles often assembled surrounding the bases of long echinating styles. Spicules numerous acanthotylostyles with distinct tyles at the rounded ends, 160–280 x 20–25 µm, large styles, 2400–3850 x 25–50 µm, and smaller, very thin styles 510–650 x 5 µm. Remarks. Our specimens are in good accordance with the type as described by ... : 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 50, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3692.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/249019 ...