Published December 31, 2021 | Version v1
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Carteriospongia flabellifera

Description

Carteriospongia flabellifera (Bowerbank, 1877)

Material examined

Forty-four specimens, including holotype, ethanolpreserved specimens, slides, DNA and photographs (see Supporting Information, Material S1 for the detailed metadata).

Type data: Polyfibrospongia flabellifera Bowerbank, 1877, NHMUK 1877.5.21.1302 two slide preparations from the holotype lodged in the Dresden Museum. From Geelvink Bay, Papua New Guinea (2°37.416’S, 135°15.102’E).

Notes

Published as part of Wahab, Muhammad Azmi Abdul, Wilson, Nerida G., Prada, Diana, Gomez, Oliver & Fromont, Jane, 2021, Molecular and morphological assessment of tropical sponges in the subfamily Phyllospongiinae, with the descriptions of two new species, pp. 319-355 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 193 on page 339

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
NHMUK
Material sample ID
NHMUK 1877.5
Scientific name authorship
Bowerbank
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Porifera
Order
Dictyoceratida
Family
Thorectidae
Genus
Carteriospongia
Species
flabellifera
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Carteriospongia flabellifera (Bowerbank, 1877) sec. Wahab, Wilson, Prada, Gomez & Fromont, 2021

References

  • Bowerbank JS. 1877. Descriptions of five new species of sponges discovered by A. B. Meyer on the Philippine Islands and New Guinea. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1877: 456 - 464.