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TABLE 3 in New carnivorous sponges from the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia collected by ROV from the RV FALKOR

  • 1. Queensland Museum, PO Box 3300, South Brisbane 4101, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia & School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, 4072 Australia & Griffith Institute for Drug Discovery, Griffith University, Brisbane 4111, Queensland, Australia
  • 2. Queensland Museum, PO Box 3300, South Brisbane 4101, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia & Griffith Institute for Drug Discovery, Griffith University, Brisbane 4111, Queensland, Australia & john. hooper @ qm. qld. gov. au; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 1722 - 5954

Description

TABLE 3. Comparative morphological and distributional data for all stalked disc–shaped species of Abyssocladia.

SpeciesReferenceMorphologyTotal height xSkeleton
width (mm)
Abyssocladia falkor nov.This workPedunculate, short erect stem and a vertically50 x 10Dense longitudinal bundles of mycalostyles and styles in the axis
sporientated disc shaped body with filamentsof peduncle, body with radial skeleton, bundles of mycalostyles
radiating out in a single plane from the discextending into filaments, roots strongyle bundles
margin
Abyssocladia jeanvaceletiThis workPedunculate, short erect stem and a vertically40 x 30Dense longitudinal bundles of mycalostyles in the axis of pedun-
sp. nov.orientated disc shaped body with filamentscle, body with radial skeleton, bundles of mycalostyles extend-
radiating out in a single plane from the discing into filaments, roots strongyle bundles
margin
Abyssocladia annaeEkins, ErpenbeckPedunculate, erect stem supporting a slightly3 x 2Peduncle axis longitudinally arranged subtylostyles, body with
Ekins, Erpenbeck && Hooper, 2020:cupped-shaped obovate (leaf-like, flabel-radiating subtylostyles projecting only in one quadrant
Hooper, 202023–25, Fig. 4late, fan-shaped) apical body, lacking lateral
filaments
Abyssocladia carchariasKelly & Vacelet,Pedunculate, long thin, flattened circular7 x 3.4Dense longitudinal bundles of mycalostyles in the axis of pedun-
Kelly & Vacelet, 20112011: 58–60, Figs.body, with short blunt radiating filamentscle, body with radial skeleton, bundles of mycalostyles extend-
2–3ing into filaments
Abyssocladia dominalbaVacelet, 2006:Long thin pedunculate with an ovoid or28–31Peduncle axis with longitudinally arranged long fusiform styles,
Vacelet, 2006575–577, Fig. 14subspherical body, body with dense spicularsupported by radiating bundles of fusiform styles and smaller
bundles laterally radiatingstyles with tips directed outwards
Abyssocladia fryeraeHestetun, Rapp &Pedunculate, short stem, disc-shaped droplet-25 x 12Stem with tightly packed subtylostyles entering center of
Hestetun, Rapp & Pom-Pomponi, 2019:4,like body, radiating long filaments in a singledisc-shaped body with radial skeleton, filaments and disc also
poni, 2019Fig. 2plane from disc margincomposed of subtylostyles
Abyssocladia huitzilo-Vacelet, 2006:Erect pedunculated, enlarged base, long thin41 x 0.3– 0.6Axis of peduncle tightly packed with longitudinal bundles of
pochtli Vacelet, 2006569–573, Figs.peduncle, flattened semicircular disc-likelong substrongyles, body with radiating bundles and irregularly
9–11body, with numerous free radiating spiculedispersed large substrongyles, filaments with smaller bundles of
fascicles protrudingsubstrongyles
Abyssocladia inflataVacelet, 2006:Thin pedunculate, flattened discform body,8.5 x 3.5Axis with longitudinally arranged styles extremely reduced liv-
Vacelet, 2006573–575,hispid surface, with short filamentsing tissue, body with skeleton of radiating styles protruding from
Figs. 12–13surface
width (mm)
Abyssocladia kellyaeHestetun, Rapp &Long stalk with disc-shaped body and radial43 x 7Main skeleton with tightly arranged longitudinal mycalostyles,
Hestetun, Rapp & Pom-Pomponi, 2019: 5,filaments in a single plane on disc margin,Radiating filaments composed of mycalostyles, subtylostyles and
poni, 2019Fig. 3enlarged basal platetylostyles within sponge body
Abyssocladia lakwolliiVacelet & Kelly,Pedunculate, flattened disc attached to a thinup to 57Peduncle tightly packed longitudinal bundles of large mycalo-
Vacelet & Kelly, 20142014: 387–392,peduncle with radiating filaments forming astyles, basal attachment tightly packed shorter mycalostyles 1
Figs. 1–3flat to concave umbrellaand substrongyles, mycalostyles 1 of the peduncle fan out in the
disc, diverging into radiating bundles towards the rim, disc with
many small diverging bundles of mycalostyles 2
Abyssocladia oxyastersEkins, Erpenbeck,Pedunculate, erect, long thin stem with140–160 xAxis of stem and filaments with longitudinal bundles of myca-
Ekins, Erpenbeck, GoudieGoudie & Hooper,plano-convex disc shaped body on apex0.6lostyles 1, basal holdfasts contain smaller thicker curved oxeote
& Hooper, 20202020: 247–251,encircled by radiating filaments, and conicalanisostyles 2
Figs. 4–6basal disc holdfast
Abyssocladia natushimaeIse & Vacelet,Erect pedunculate long stem on circular88 x 1–2.2Base cored by substrongyles, short microstrongyles and micro-
Ise & Vacelet, 20102010:889–892,base, mop-like inflated apical body with longscleres, axis of peduncle tightly packed with long mycalostyles
Figs. 2–5filaments in one plane, ending with inflatedlongitudinally and spirally arranged, upper part of peduncle
bulbous tipscovered by soft tissue packed with microstrongyles and few
microscleres, axis of filaments supported by bundles of mycalo-
styles and microstrongyles
Abyssocladia polycepha-Hestetun, PomponiErect pedunculate central stem with side35Densely packed bundles of mycalostyles in the central stem and
lus Hestetun, Pomponi && Rapp, 2016:branches each ending in a disclikebranches, radiating bundles of mycalostyles projecting from the
Rapp, 2016523–525, Figs. 2–3body bearing filamentous projectionsbody and constituting the skeleton of the filaments, disc-shaped
body also with a network of less well organized subtylostyles
Abyssocladia stegosau-Hestetun, Rapp &Stalked, vertical disc-shaped radial body,48 x 1–3core axis of longitudinal, tight tracts of mycalostyles, fleshy
rensis Hestetun, Rapp &Pomponi, 2019:filaments radiating in a single plane fromparts of radial body with subtylostyles and tylostyles bases, base
Pomponi, 201911, Fig. 5disc margin,with styles or substrongyles

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Notes

Published as part of Ekins, Merrick & Hooper, John N. A., 2023, New carnivorous sponges from the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia collected by ROV from the RV FALKOR, pp. 447-448 in Zootaxa 5293 (3) on page 447, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5293.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/7961272

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