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Artemisina apollinis

Description

Artemisina apollinis (Ridley & Dendy, 1886)

(Fig 3a–e)

Restricted synonymy: Amphilectus apollinis Ridley & Dendy, 1886; Artemisina dianae Topsent, 1907.

Material examined: 4 specimens collected in stations 1 (SOI; 60°28'S, 46°29'W; 139 m; 19/2/2014; MACN-In 44357; IEO-CSIC Col.), 4 (SOI; 60°55'S, 44°04'W; 256 m; 2/3/2014; MACN-In 44358) and 18 (SOI; 60°47,561'S, 45°36,854'W; 96 m; 10/3/2012; MACN-In 44356; IEO-CSIC Col.).

Description: Massive slightly digitate specimen, cavernous in aspect, brown colour (Figure 3a). Spicules are: megascleres: thick styles of 530–700 µm by 10–40 µm and long and thin ectosomal styles of 450–520 µm by 5 µm; microscleres: toxas with spined ends 480–640 µm and small isochelae 15–20 µm (Figure 3b–e).

Remarks: This species was previously recorded in Antarctic and subantarctic waters by Topsent (1908), Koltun (1964), Ríos et al. (2004), Ríos (2006), Fernández et al. (2021), among others. This represents the first record for the SOI.

Notes

Published as part of Schejter, Laura, Cristobo, Javier & Ríos, Pilar, 2024, New records of demosponges (Porifera) from the South Orkney Islands (Antarctica) with a checklist for the region, pp. 401-430 in Zootaxa 5403 (4) on pages 407-408, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5403.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10562154

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
SOI
Event date
2012-03-10
Verbatim event date
2012-03-10/2014-03-02
Scientific name authorship
Ridley & Dendy
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Porifera
Order
Poecilosclerida
Family
Microcionidae
Genus
Artemisina
Species
apollinis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Artemisina apollinis (Ridley, 1886) sec. Schejter, Cristobo & Ríos, 2024

References

  • Ridley, S. O. & Dendy, A. (1886) Preliminary report on the Monaxonida collected by H. M. S. Challenger. Part I. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 18, 325 - 351, 470 - 493. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222938609459998
  • Topsent, E. (1907) Poecilosclerides nouvelles recueillies par le Francais dans l'Antarctique. Bulletin du Museum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris, 13, 69 - 76.
  • Topsent, E. (1908) Spongiaires. Expedition antarctique francaise (1903 - 1905) commandee par le Dr Jean Charcot, Paris, 4, 1 - 37.
  • Koltun, V. M. (1964) Sponges of the Antarctic. 1 Tetraxonida and Cornacuspongida. In: Pavlovskii, E. P., Andriyashev, A. P. & Ushakov, P. V. (Eds.), Biological Reports of the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1955 - 1958). Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Moscow- Leningrad, pp. 6 - 133 + 443 - 448.
  • Rios, P., Cristobo, F. J. & Urgorri, V. (2004) Poecilosclerida (Porifera, Demospongiae) collected by the Spanish Antarctic expedition BENTART- 94. Cahiers de Biologie Marine, 45, 97 - 119.
  • Rios, P. (2006) Esponjas del Orden Poecilosclerida de las campanas espanolas de bentos antartico. PhD Thesis, Santiago de Compostela University, Santiago, 527 pp.
  • Fernandez, A. A., Lemina, N. A. & Schejter, L. (2021) Sponges (Porifera: Demospongiae) recorded at the South Shetland Islands and near the Antarctic Peninsula during the Argentinian Summer Antarctic Expedition in 2012. Proceedings of the 1 st. International Electronic Conference on Biological Diversity, Ecology and Evolution, March 15 - 30, 2021. Biology and Life Sciences Forum, 2, 38. https: // doi. org / 10.3390 / BDEE 2021 - 09470