Rowella connectens Lopes & Klautau 2023 ...

• Main Authors: Lopes, Matheus Vieira, Klautau, Michelle
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2023
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Porifera; Calcarea; Clathrinida; Leucettidae; Rowella; Rowella connectens; New Zealand; Burton; North Cape
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8152333; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.8152333

ROWELLA CONNECTENS (BRØNDSTED, 1926) COMB. NOV. (FIGS 15, 16; TABLE 8) Synonyms: Leucandra connectens – Brøndsted, 1926: 308; Burton, 1963: 552. Type specimen: Five syntypes under the same voucher (NHMD-633253). Type locality: Cape Maria van Diemen, Northland, New Zealand (34°24ʹ S, 172°30ʹ E; inaccurate coordinates). Three Kings–North Cape MEOW ecoregion. Description: Sponge body tubular and digitate (Fig. 15A). Colour cream in ethanol. Consistency incompressible but slightly soft to the touch. Outer surface smooth. Cortex with multiple small inhalant apertures, giving it a porous appearance. Oscula present at the apical region of the tubes. They are simple slits or circular and surrounded by membrane with specific skeleton (Fig. 15B). Body wall thick, tapering towards the top and base of the sponge. Atrial cavity narrow and slightly hispid due to the apical actine of tetractines. Aquiferous system leuconoid with spherical choanocyte chambers (Fig. 15C). Skeleton: The oscular margin has sagittal triactines ... : Published as part of Lopes, Matheus Vieira & Klautau, Michelle, 2023, Phylogeny and revision of Leucaltis and Leucettusa (Porifera: Calcarea), with new classification proposals and description of a new type of aquiferous system, pp. 691-746 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 198 on pages 719-722, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad008, http://zenodo.org/record/7894159 ...