Plicatellopsis borealis Lehnert & Stone 2017, n. sp.

• Main Authors: Lehnert, Helmut, Stone, Robert P.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Porifera; Demospongiae; Hadromerida; Suberitidae; Plicatellopsis; Plicatellopsis borealis; Bering Sea
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6049672; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6049672

Plicatellopsis borealis n. sp. (Figs. 2 & 3; Table 1) Material examined: Holotype ZSM 20170015, whole specimen in ethanol, 28 June 2013, 102 m depth, 110.2 km E of Tolstoi Pt., St. George Island, Pribilof Islands, eastern Bering Sea (56°39.510´N, 167°40.338´W). Bottom water temperature = 1.0 °C. Paratypes ZSM 20170016, same collection data as holotype; ZSM 20170017, whole specimen dry (sample in ethanol), 28 June 2015, 80 m depth, 111 km NE of St. Paul Island, Pribilof Islands, eastern Bering Sea (57°00.828´N, 168°20.220´W). Bottom water temperature = 3.7 °C. ZSM 201700178, whole specimen dry (sample in ethanol), 15 July 2013, 117 m depth, 99.3 km WSW of Southwest Pt., St. Paul Island, Pribilof Islands, eastern Bering Sea (57°00.470´N, 172°02.112´W). Bottom water temperature = 3.6 °C. ZSM 20170019 whole specimen dry (sample in ethanol), 28 June 2015, 76 m depth, 91 km E of Polovina Pt., St. Paul Island, Pribilof Islands, eastern Bering Sea (57°10.806´N, 168°38.580´W). Bottom water temperature = 3.9 °C. Other material examined ZSM 20170020 and ZSM 20170021, whole specimens dry (samples in ethanol), 2 July 2014, 66 m depth, 159 km NE of Northeast Pt., St. Paul Island, Pribilof Islands, eastern Bering Sea (58°00.852´N, 167°49.134´W). Bottom water temperature = -0.4 °C. ZSM 20170022 (4 bases coalesced into one funnel), whole specimen in ethanol, 28 June 2013, 102 m depth, 110.2 km E of Tolstoi Pt., St. George Island, Pribilof Islands, eastern Bering Sea (56°39.510´N, 167°40.338´W). Bottom water temperature = 1.0 °C. ZSM 20170023, whole specimen dry (sample in ethanol), 28 June 2013, 102 m depth, 110 km E of Tolstoi Pt., St. George Island, Pribilof Islands, eastern Bering Sea (56°39.510´N, 167°40.338´W). Bottom water temperature = 1.0 °C. ZSM 20170024, whole specimen dry (sample in ethanol), 27 June 2015, 66 m depth, 78 km NE of St. Paul Island, Pribilof Islands, eastern Bering Sea (57°49.812´N, 169°21.300´W). Bottom water temperature = 3.6 °C. ZSM 20170025 (2 specimens), whole specimen dry (sample in ethanol), 8 ...