Thenea abyssorum Koltun 1964 ...

• Main Authors: Cárdenas, Paco, Rapp, Hans Tore
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2012
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Porifera; Demospongiae; Astrophorida; Theneidae; Thenea; Thenea abyssorum; Arctic; Greenland; Greenland Sea; Northern Norway; Vesterålen
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6166253; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6166253

Thenea abyssorum Koltun, 1964 (Figures 17, 18 A–B) Synonymy. Thenea muricata abyssorum Koltun, 1959 (nomen nudum): Koltun 1959, p. 662. Thenea abyssorum: Koltun 1964, p. 146; Koltun 1966, p. 37; Steenstrup & Tendal 1982, p. 259; Barthel & Tendal 1993, p. 83; Witte 1996, p. 571; Weslawski et al. 2003, p. 75; Cárdenas et al. 2011, Table S1. Thenea sp.: Babiç 1915, p. 408. Material. NTNU-VM 54948, off Vesterålen, northern Norway, 69°30.3'N, 13°55'E, 2130 m; NTNU-VM 66585, Røstbanken, northern Norway, 68°36.5'N, 11°54'E, 675- 850 m. Comparative material. Thenea abyssorum, ZMBN 85228, Arctic mid-ocean ridge, Greenland Sea, 73°34'N, 07°45'E, H2 DEEP cruise 2008, 2425– 2463 m, Sneli sled (Sneli 1998). Outer morphology (Fig. 17 A). Small sub-spherical sponge (2.5 cm high, 2 cm wide) with root-like structures. Very hispid. Slightly compressible. Color alive and in ethanol is dirty brown. Choanosome is whitish to brownish (alive and in ethanol). Pores and oscule are on opposite sides (in upper part of sponge). ... : 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 33-36, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.280590 ...