Rowella lancifera Lopes & Klautau 2023, COMB. NOV.
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Description
ROWELLA LANCIFERA (DENDY, 1924) COMB.NOV.
(FIGS 22, 23; TABLE 12)
Synonyms: Leucettusa lancifer – Dendy, 1924: 278; Brøndsted, 1926: 301; Burton, 1929: 402; Burton,
1963: 555; Pritchard et al., 1984: 128; Kelly et al., 2009: 45; Leucettusa imperfecta – Burton, 1963: 598; Leucettusa lancifera – Kelly, 2018: 19.
T y p e s p e c i m e n: O n e l e c t o t y p e (B M N H 1 9 2 3. 1 9. 1. 5) a n d o n e p a r a l e c t o t y p e (B M N H 1923.10.1.6).
L, lectotype; PL, paralectotype.
Type locality: Three Kings Islands, New Zealand (34°24ʹ S, 172°06ʹ E; inaccurate coordinates). Three Kings–North Cape MEOW ecoregion.
Description: Sponge tubular with vase-shaped form, strongly oval at the top, tapering to the base. Colour white to beige in ethanol (Fig. 22A). Consistency compressible to the touch. Outer surface smooth. Folds of choanosomal tissue delimitate the atrial cavity (Fig. 22B). One apical osculum, elevated and surrounded by a membrane. Aquiferous system leuconoid with subspherical to oval choanocyte chambers (Fig. 22C).
Skeleton: Cortical skeleton well developed, having approximately the same thickness as the choanosome; comprised of several layers of tangential triactines (Fig. 22D). Choanosomal and atrial skeletons reduced and comprised of pygmy triactines and tetractines mostly present around canals (Fig. 22E, F). Pygmy tetractines are also abundant near the osculum.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- MEOW
- Family
- Leucettidae
- Genus
- Rowella
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Clathrinida
- Phylum
- Porifera
- Scientific name authorship
- Lopes & Klautau
- Species
- lancifera
- Taxonomic status
- comb. nov.
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Rowella lancifera (DENDY, 1924) sec. Lopes & Klautau, 2023
References
- Dendy A. 1924. Porifera. Part I. Non-Antarctic sponges. Natural History Report. British Antarctic (Terra NoVa) Expedition, 1910 (Zoology) 6: 269 - 392, pls I - XV.
- Brondsted HV. 1926. Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition 1914 - 16. XXXV. Sponges from New Zealand. Part II. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening 81: 295 - 331.
- Burton M. 1929. Porifera. Part II. Antarctic sponges. British Antarctic (' Terra Nova') Expedition, 1910. Natural History Report, London, Zoology 6: 393 - 458.
- Pritchard K, Ward V, Battershill C, Bergquist PR. 1984. Marine sponges: forty-six sponges of northern New Zealand. Leigh Laboratory Bulletin 14: 1 - 149.
- Kelly M, Edwards AR, Wilkinson MR, Alvarez B, Cook S de C, Bergquist PR, Buckeridge JS, Campbell HJ, Reiswig HM, Valentine C, Vacelet J. 2009. Phylum Porifera: sponges. In: Gordon DP, ed. NeM Zealand inVentory of biodiVersity, Vol 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 23 - 46.
- Burton M. 1963. A reVision of the classification of the calcareous sponges. London: British Museum (Natural History).
- Kelly M. 2018. Splendid sponges: a guide to the sponges of NeM Zealand, V. 3. Auckland: National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) Taihoro Nukurangi.