Asbestopluma Topsent 1901

Subgenus Asbestopluma Topsent, 1901 Diagnosis. Asbestopluma without spear-shaped microtylostyles (from Lopes et al. 2011). Type species: Cladorhiza pennatula (Schmidt, 1875) (by subsequent designation, Topsent 1901). Remarks. The genus Asbestopluma has been recently summarised, including remeasuring...

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Main Authors: Ekins, Merrick, Erpenbeck, Dirk, Hooper, John N. A.
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Published: 2020
Subjects:
Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Porifera
Demospongiae
Poecilosclerida
Cladorhizidae
Asbestopluma
Pacific
Wilkes Land
Goodwin
Merrick
Antarc*
Antarctica
Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/3846435
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3846435
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Summary:Subgenus Asbestopluma Topsent, 1901 Diagnosis. Asbestopluma without spear-shaped microtylostyles (from Lopes et al. 2011). Type species: Cladorhiza pennatula (Schmidt, 1875) (by subsequent designation, Topsent 1901). Remarks. The genus Asbestopluma has been recently summarised, including remeasuring the spicule dimensions of some old types, by Lopes et al. (2011) and Goodwin et al. (2017), with these data updated to include additional information, and more recently described species, in Table 4. There has been two species recorded from the Australian EEZ, viz. Asbestopluma (Asbestopluma) desmophora Kelly & Vacelet, 2011 from Seamounts on Macquarie Ridge, SE Pacific, and A. (A.) obae Koltun, 1964 from Wilkes Land, Antarctica. Published as part of Ekins, Merrick, Erpenbeck, Dirk & Hooper, John N. A., 2020, Carnivorous sponges from the Australian Bathyal and Abyssal zones collected during the RV Investigator 2017 Expedition, pp. 1-159 in Zootaxa 4774 (1) on page 28, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4774.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3825140

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