Mycale carlilei Lehnert, Stone & Heimler, 2006, sp. nov. ...

• Main Authors: Lehnert, Helmut, Stone, Robert, Heimler, Wolfgang
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2006
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Porifera; Demospongiae; Poecilosclerida; Mycalidae; Mycale; Mycale carlilei; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6263588; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6263588

Mycale carlilei sp. nov. (Figs 7 a–f) Material Holotype, deposited at the National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. under the registration number USNM 1082470 (51°40’42.2’’N, 176°15’39.5’’W, 7.2 km south of Ragged Point on Kagalaska Island, 150 m depth). Two paratypes are deposited at the Auke Bay Laboratory Museum, Juneau, Alaska, U.S.A. under the registration numbers: AB­05­82 (51°55’5.5’’N, 175°17’37.6’’W, approximately 12 km south of Cape Kigun, Atka Island, 112 m depth), and AB­05­81 (51°40’40’’N, 176°16’15.5’’W, 7.3 km south of Ragged Point on Kagalaska Island, 156 m depth). Additional material: 6221­2B­7 (51°54’49.1’’N, 173°53’8.3’’W, 25.7 km southeast of the west end of Amlia Island, 119 m depth). Description Light brown, cylindrical, stalked sponge (Figs. 7 a, b). Consistency very soft, except for the wiry stalk. Surface smooth. The holotype is attached to a cobble with a stalk, ca. 2 cm in diameter. Other specimens have been observed in situ attached to pebbles, boulders, and ... : 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 16-21, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.172259 ...