Vulcanella aberrans Maldonado & Uriz 1996 ...

• Main Authors: Cárdenas, Paco, Rapp, Hans Tore
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2012
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Porifera; Demospongiae; Astrophorida; Vulcanellidae; Vulcanella; Vulcanella aberrans; Northern Norway
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6166246; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6166246

Vulcanella cf. aberrans (Maldonado & Uriz, 1996) (Figures 14–16) Synonymy. Vulcanella (Vulcanella) aberrans: Cárdenas et al. 2011, Table S1. Material. ZMBN 80959, Traenadjupet, northern Norway, 66º58.22'N, 11º7.26'E, 320 m, bottom: mud with rare pebbles, boxcore. Comparative material examined. Vulcanella aberrans, CEAB-POR. BIO 021B, paratype, slope of Alboran Island, 35º54'- 35º52'N, 3º09'- 3º05'W, 70-120 m; ZMAPOR 21193, Gulf of Cadiz, 35º39.274'N, 07º20.013'E, 1390 m, tiny fragment; ZMAPOR 21170, Gulf of Cadiz, 35º39.274'N, 07º20.013'E, 1390 m; ZMAPOR 18012, Morocco, near Tanger, 35°17'39.66"N, 6°47'16.18"W, 531 m. Vulcanella gracilis, ZMAPOR 18025, off Morocco, 529 m. Outer morphology (Fig. 14 A). Massive sponge. Our specimen is broken up in several fragments. The largest, ficiform, attached to a small stone is 5 cm high and 4.5 cm wide. Color alive and in ethanol, of surface and choanosome, is whitish. Specimen is compressible. Surface is irregular, strongly hispid and dirty (due to trapped ... : Published as part of Cárdenas, Paco & Rapp, Hans Tore, 2012, A review of Norwegian streptaster-bearing Astrophorida (Porifera: Demospongiae: Tetractinellida), new records and a new species, pp. 1-52 in Zootaxa 3253 on pages 29-33, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.280590 ...