Tedania (Tedania) kagalaskai Lehnert, Stone & Heimler, 2006, sp. nov. ...

Tedania (Tedania) kagalaskai sp. nov. (Fig 6 a–f) Material The holotype is deposited at the National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. under the registration number USNM 1082468 (51°52’15.1’’N, 176°15’57.5’’W, Little Tanaga Strait, 146 m depth). One paratype is deposited at the Nat...

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Main Authors: Lehnert, Helmut, Stone, Robert, Heimler, Wolfgang
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Published: Zenodo 2006
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Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6263587
https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6263587
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Summary:Tedania (Tedania) kagalaskai sp. nov. (Fig 6 a–f) Material The holotype is deposited at the National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. under the registration number USNM 1082468 (51°52’15.1’’N, 176°15’57.5’’W, Little Tanaga Strait, 146 m depth). One paratype is deposited at the National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. under the registration number USNM 1082469 (51°51’56.4’’N, 176°15’7.4’’W, Little Tanaga Strait, 105 m depth). A second paratype is deposited at the Auke Bay Laboratory Museum, Juneau, Alaska, U.S.A. under the registration number AB­05­82 (51°37’19.3’’N, 177°14’21.0’’W, approximately 6.5 km south of Cape Tusik, Kanaga Island, 155 m depth). Description Large orange brown sponge, attached to bedrock, boulders, and cobbles by a firm stalk (Figs. 6 a, b). The body is much softer, flabellate, growing up to a height of 35 cm, approximately 10 cm above the attachment the body expands in one plane with a thickness of approximately 5 cm to to a maximum width at the ... : 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 13-16, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.172259 ...