Thenea levis ...

• Main Authors: Cárdenas, Paco, Rapp, Hans Tore
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2012
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Porifera; Demospongiae; Astrophorida; Theneidae; Thenea; Thenea levis; Northern Norway; University of Tromsø
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6166254; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6166254

Thenea levis von Lendenfeld, 1907 (Figures 18 C–D, 19, 20) Synonymy. Thenea levis von Lendenfeld, 1907: von Lendenfeld 1907, p. 215; Steenstrup & Tendal 1982, p. 259; Klitgaard 1995, p. 1; Cárdenas et al. 2011, Table S1. Material. ZMBN 85230, 85249, West of Marstein, western Norway, 60°8'18''N, 4°50'47''E, 300 m, Agassiz trawl; NTNU-VM 55838, 55839, 55842, Haltenbanken, western Norway, 64°14'56''N, 9°0'3.7''E; ZMBN 85250, Røst reef, northern Norway, 67°30.41'N, 9°25.60'E, 312 m, large boxcore; ZMBN 85229, Sotbakken, northern Norway, 70°45.32'N, 18°40.11'E, 286 m, large boxcore; University of Tromsø, Marbank, field# M07GOS0081-7, off Tromsø, 71°08'N, 18°39.33'E, 190 m, beamtrawl. Comparative material. Thenea levis, ZMAPOR 21501, SW of Rockall Bank, 55°31'7.9"N, 15°48'27.54"W, 844- 857 m. Description. Outer morphology. Massive elongated sponge. ZMBN 85230 is straight (8 cm long, 2 cm high) (Fig. 19 A) while ZMBN 85249 (6.5 cm long, 2.5 cm high) is slightly bent. Both have a minutely hispid surface. ZMBN ... : 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 36-38, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.280590 ...