Radiella antarctica Plotkin & Janussen 2008

• Main Authors: Göcke, Christian, Janussen, Dorte
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Porifera; Demospongiae; Hadromerida; Polymastiidae; Radiella; Radiella antarctica; Antarctic; Weddell Sea; Weddell; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6145138; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6145138

Radiella antarctica Plotkin & Janussen, 2008 Radiella antarctica Plotkin & Janussen, 2008: 111 –116, figs. 7–9, tab. 4. Material. 1 specimen from station 039- 16 (SMF 11772), 2151.3 m, 64 ° 28.79 ' S, 2 ° 52.74 ' E, 0 4.01. 2008. Description. Discoidal sponge, encrusting on stone. About 8 mm in diameter, 3 mm thick. Skeleton formed by tracts of tylostyles about 1600 µm long, radially arranged, running from the basis towards the surface. Cortex a palisade of small tylostyles, about 640 µm in length. A marginal fringe made up of additional tylostyles (2500– 5600 µm). Description and Remarks. The species R. antarctica was described by Plotkin and Janussen (2008) from material of the ANDEEP II and III expeditions in the Weddell Sea. The new specimen shows similar characteristics. Published as part of Göcke, Christian & Janussen, Dorte, 2013, Demospongiae of ANT XXIV / 2 (SYSTCO I) Expedition — Antarctic Eastern Weddell Sea, pp. 28-101 in Zootaxa 3692 (1) on page 40, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.3692.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/249019