Caulophacus (Caulophacus) schulzei Wilson 1904
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Description
Caulophacus (Caulophacus) schulzei Wilson, 1904
(Fig. 6A)
Synonymy. Caulophacus schulzei Wilson, 1904, 43; Lendenfeld,1915, 48; Lévi, 1964, 100; Koltun, 1967, 116; Beaulieu, 1998, 50; 2001, 808.
Material examined. CAS 223283, col. no. NA085-045-A, E/ V Nautilus w ROVs Hercules & Argus, Dive NA085, Cordell Bank, Calif., 38.09ºN, 123.70ºW. 2647.7 m, 09 Aug. 2017.
Comparative material. Cotype of Caulophacus schulzei, USNM 08270, USFS Albatross stn 3382, Gulf of Panama, 06.35ºN, 80.68ºW, 3279 m, 07 March 1891.
Description. Only a moderate-size margin of the specimen on the left of Figure 6A was collected for determination. The specimen is stalked and attached to a rock outcrop. The body is a wide shallow cup with undulated margin. Attachment of stalk to the body was not recorded in the video. The body is 60.5 cm in diameter as calculate from 10 cm laser spacing indicated at left of the in situ image.
Remarks. Spicules of the collected 1.3 cm thick wall fragment agree with both Wilson’s (1904) original description and the review of the cotype specimen of Caulophacus schulzei from the Gulf of Panama. In all reports, the species is encountered in large numbers of specimens.
Distribution. The species is known to have a very wide distribution from the Tasman Sea, N. Peru, Ecuador, Gulf of Panama, Central California and the Bering Sea from 3183-4510 m depths. The present report is a range extension to Northern California and provides the first in situ image of the species.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Rossellidae
- Genus
- Caulophacus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lyssacinosida
- Phylum
- Porifera
- Scientific name authorship
- Wilson
- Species
- schulzei
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Caulophacus (Caulophacus) schulzei Wilson, 1904 sec. Reiswig, 2020
References
- Wilson, H. V. (1904)`The sponges' (Albatross). Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard College, 30 (1), 1 - 164, pls. 1 - 26.
- Lendenfeld, R. von (1915) Reports on the scientific results of the expedition to the eastern tropical Pacific, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U. S. Fish Commission Steamer " Albatross ", from October 1904 to March 1905, Lieut. Commander L. M. Garrett, U. S. N., " Albatross ", 1891 - 1899. The sponges. 3 Hexactinellida. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 42, 1 - 396, pls. 1 - 109.
- Levi, C. (1964) Spongiaires des zones bathyale, abyssale et hadale. Galathea Reports, 7, 63 - 112.
- Koltun, V. M. (1967) Vitreous sponges of the Northern and Far-Eastern Seas of the USSR. Opredeliteli po faune SSSR, 94, 1 - 124. [in Russian]
- Beaulieu, S. (1998) The ecology of glass sponge " communities " in the abyssal NE Pacific. Ph. D. Thesis, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, California, xviii + 206 pp.