Planned intervention: On Wednesday June 26th 05:30 UTC Zenodo will be unavailable for 10-20 minutes to perform a storage cluster upgrade.
Published November 7, 2012 | Version v1
Taxonomic treatment Open

Lissodendoryx (Ectyodoryx) collinsi Goodwin & Brickle 2012, sp. nov.

  • 1. National Museums Northern Ireland, 153 Bangor Road, Cultra, Holywood, County Down, BT 18 0 EU & Shallow Marine Surveys Group, PO Box 598, Stanley, FIQQ 1 ZZ, Falkland Islands
  • 2. Shallow Marine Surveys Group, PO Box 598, Stanley, FIQQ 1 ZZ, Falkland Islands & South Atlantic Environmental Research Institute, PO Box 609, Stanley, FIQQ 122, Falkland Islands

Description

Lissodendoryx (Ectyodoryx) collinsi sp. nov.

(Figure 9)

Type material: Holotype: BELUM Mc 7676. Sample in 95% ethanol, tissue section and spicule preparation on slides; Green Island, Stromness, Site 1, South Georgia (54°09.448’S, 36° 39.752’W); depth 17.4m; collected by C. Goodwin, P. Brickle and S. Cartwright, 27 th November 2010.

Paratype: BELUM Mc 7681. Sample in 95% ethanol, tissue section and spicule preparation on slides; Green Island, Stromness, Site 1, South Georgia (54°09.448’S, 36° 39.752’W); depth 17.4m; collected by C. Goodwin, P. Brickle and S. Cartwright, 27 th November 2010.

Etymology: Named after Dr Martin Collins, current South Georgia Chief Executive Officer and Director of Fisheries, and member of the Shallow Marine Surveys Group, who generously provided accommodation to researchers pre- and post survey.

External morphology: In situ appearance: Massively encrusting peach sponge with irregular lobed surface. Texture of sponge surface smooth (Fig. 9a).

Preserved appearance: White sponge, firm but compressible. Smooth ectosomal layer.

Skeleton: The choanosomal skeleton is formed of a loose, confused, reticulation of columns of styles echinated by acanthostyles. Ascending columns up to 15 spicules thick joined by bundles of 1–3 spicules. Columns anastomise frequently. The ectosomal skeleton consists of brushes of tornotes (Fig. 9b).

Spicules: Measurements from Mc7676.

Choanosomal styles: 301(342)396 by 9.1 (12.3) 15.2µm. Smooth styles which come to an abrupt point (Fig. 9c).

Echinating acanthostyles: 95(121)178 by 3.8(7.3)13.9µm. Parallel sided then coming to an abrupt point. Entirely spined with small, neat conical spines (Fig. 9d).

Ectosomal tornotes: 216(256)295 by 5.4 (7.8)10.9µm (Fig. 9e, f).

Microscleres: absent.

Remarks: These specimens have been assigned to the genus Lissodendoryx on the basis of the presence of a choanosomal skeleton of styles and acanthostyles and the presence of ectosomal tornotes. The presence of echinating acanthostyles in the skeletal tracts assigns this to the subgenus Lissodendoryx (Ectyodoryx) (van Soest 2002a). All other Antarctic or South Atlantic species have chelae or sigma microscleres (Table 4).

Notes

Published as part of Goodwin, Claire & Brickle, Paul, 2012, Sponge biodiversity of South Georgia island with descriptions of fifteen new species, pp. 1-48 in Zootaxa 3542 on pages 16-17

Files

Files (2.9 kB)

Name Size Download all
md5:d94d631d359299ea5349c3c73d8f5304
2.9 kB Download

System files (19.6 kB)

Name Size Download all
md5:b432c86f75cbe6fe767b33046c8a70d2
19.6 kB Download

Linked records

Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
BELUM
Event date
2010-11-27
Family
Coelosphaeridae
Genus
Lissodendoryx
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Poecilosclerida
Phylum
Porifera
Scientific name authorship
Goodwin & Brickle
Species
collinsi
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype , paratype
Verbatim event date
2010-11-27
Taxonomic concept label
Lissodendoryx (Ectyodoryx) collinsi Goodwin & Brickle, 2012

References

  • van Soest, R. W. M. (2002 a) Family Coelosphaeridae Dendy, 1922. In: Hooper, J. N. A. & van Soest R. W. M. (Eds), Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of sponges. Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, New York, pp. 528 - 546.