Petrosaspongia pharmamari Uriz & Cebrian, 2006, n. sp. ...

• Main Authors: Uriz, María - Jesús, Cebrian, Emma
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2006
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Porifera; Demospongiae; Dictyoceratida; Thorectidae; Petrosaspongia; Petrosaspongia pharmamari; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6494291; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6494291

Petrosaspongia pharmamari n. sp. Material examined: 1 Specimen, 15 m depth, rocky bottom, El Hierro, Canary Islands. Holotype Nº CEAB.POR. BIO –190, Centre for Advanced Studies of Blanes, CSIC, Spain. Etymology: The species is dedicated to Pharmamar Company, for leading investigations in the field of new anti­cancer drugs from marine organisms and, particularly, from sponges. Type locality: El Hierro (Canary Islands, North Atlantic) sublittoral. Description External features Massive, lobulose specimen 6 cm high, 8 cm wide. Consistency very hard, almost incompressible. Ectosome detachable from the choanosome in shreds. Choanosome dense. Surface even, microconulose, unarmoured except at the conules, where the end of the primary fibres arises (Fig. 2 A). Oscules inconspicuous. Colour dark brown outside, beige inside. Skeleton Densely reticulate. Formed by irregular meshes of 35–660 m in diameter. Primary fibres: Irregular in thickness (532–975 m), cored with abundant foreign debris (Fig. 2 B). Secondary fibres: ... : Published as part of Uriz, María - Jesús & Cebrian, Emma, 2006, Presence of the Indo – Pacific genus Petrosaspongia Bergquist, 1995 (Porifera: Demospongiae) in the Atlantic with description of a new species (P. pharmamari n. sp.), pp. 61-68 in Zootaxa 1209 on pages 64-65, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.172425 ...