Coelosphaera oglalai Lehnert, Stone & Heimler, 2006, sp. nov. ...
Coelosphaera oglalai sp. nov. (Fig 3 a–f) Material Holotype: T5E34 (51°37’19.3’’N, 177°14’21.0’’W, approximately 6.5 km south of Cape Tusik, Kanaga Island, 155 m depth). Paratype: 6206189B (51°51’58.2’’N, 176°15’7.8’’W, Little Tanaga Strait, 100 m depth). Both the holotype and the paratype are d...
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| Summary: | Coelosphaera oglalai sp. nov. (Fig 3 a–f) Material Holotype: T5E34 (51°37’19.3’’N, 177°14’21.0’’W, approximately 6.5 km south of Cape Tusik, Kanaga Island, 155 m depth). Paratype: 6206189B (51°51’58.2’’N, 176°15’7.8’’W, Little Tanaga Strait, 100 m depth). Both the holotype and the paratype are deposited at the National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. under the registration numbers USNM 1082994 and USNM 1082995, respectively. Description The holotype is a subglobular sponge, about 5 cm in diameter (Fig. 3 a). Alive it is orange colored and beige in ethanol. The smooth surface is covered irregularly with conical papillae of very different sizes, ranging from 2–20 mm in height and 1–18 mm in diameter. A considerable area of the surface is overgrown with bryozoans. The paratype is a massively encrusting sponge, growing under an Iophon piceus abipocillus. Skeleton. The ectosome is in areas a tangential arrangement of bundles of tylotes, in other areas there is a tangential arrangement of ... : Published as part of Lehnert, Helmut, Stone, Robert & Heimler, Wolfgang, 2006, New species of Poecilosclerida (Demospongiae, Porifera) from the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, USA, pp. 1-23 in Zootaxa 1155 on pages 6-9, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.172259 ... |
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