Published November 13, 2020 | Version v1
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Nullarbora Ekins & Erpenbeck & Goudie & Hooper 2020, gen. nov.

  • 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. Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Richard-Wagner-Strasse 10, 80333 Munich, Germany & GeoBio-Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Richard-Wagner-Strasse 10, 80333 Munich, Germany erpenbeck @ lmu. de; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2716 - 1085
  • 3. Consultant, Victoria, Australia. goudielj @ bigpond. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2569 - 8903
  • 4. Queensland Museum, PO Box 3300, South Brisbane 4101, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia & Griffith Institute for Drug Discovery, Griffith University, Brisbane 4111, Queensland, Australia

Description

Genus Nullarbora gen. nov.

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Type species: Nullarbora heptaxia gen nov. sp. nov.

Definition: Cladorhizidae with anchorate anisochelae and a pinnate body shape, i.e. filaments at right angle to a straight stem.

Etymology: Nullus L. null, Arbor L. trees. The Nullarbor Plain is also the name of the land surrounding the Great Australian Bight from where the newly discovered species in this manuscript were collected.

Species also included: N. acanthoxea (Hestetun, Fourt, Vacelet, Boury-Esnault & Rapp, 2015), N. caillieti (Lundsten, Reiswig & Austin, 2014), N. evae (Lundsten, Reiswig & Austin, 2014), N. fristedtii (Lambe, 1900), N. grimaldii (Topsent, 1909), N. investigator (Ekins, Erpenbeck & Hooper, 2020), N. linearis (Ridley & Dendy, 1887), N. microchela (Lévi, 1964), N. penniformis (Göcke & Janussen, 2013), N. pteron (Reiswig & Lee, 2007), N. rectangularis (Ridley & Dendy, 1886), N. segonzaci (Vacelet, 2006) and N. septemdentalis (Koltun, 1970).

Notes

Published as part of Ekins, Merrick, Erpenbeck, Dirk, Goudie, Lisa & Hooper, John N. A., 2020, New carnivorous sponges and allied species from the Great Australian Bight, pp. 240-266 in Zootaxa 4878 (2) on page 244, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4878.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4424977

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Cladorhizidae
Genus
Nullarbora
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Poecilosclerida
Phylum
Porifera
Scientific name authorship
Ekins & Erpenbeck & Goudie & Hooper
Taxonomic status
gen. nov.
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Nullarbora Ekins, Erpenbeck, Goudie & Hooper, 2020

References

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