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Suberitidae

  • 1. Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology Department, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • 2. Scripps Oceanography, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA, 92093 USA
  • 3. Committee on Evolutionary Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA; Current affiliation: Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, USA
  • 4. Hakai Institute, Campbell River, British Columbia
  • 5. Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA, and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, PO Box 0843 - 03092, Balboa, Republic of Panama

Description

Dichotomous Key to California Suberitidae

1A. Macroscleres are tylosyles; may also have centrotylote microstrongyles.......................................... 2

1B. Macroscleres are styles and/or subtylostyles, with or without oxeas: Homaxinella amphispicula (de Laubenfels 1961)

2A. Thickly encrusting to massive (more than 2 mm thick)........................................................ 3

2B. Thinly encrusting (less than 2 mm thick): Protosuberites (P. sisyrnus (de Laubenfels 1930) is the only described species, but a second species of Protosuberites may be present)

3A. Some tylostyles over 800 μm in length.................................................................... 4

3B. All tylostyles less than 800 μm in length................................................................... 5

4A. Globular sponges atop branching stalks; choanosomal skeleton consisting of spicules and spicule bundles in confusion; collected in deep water: Rhizaxinella gadus (de Laubenfels 1926)

4B. Sponge unstalked; choanosomal skeleton containing multispicular columns; collected in shallow water: Suberites agaricus sp. nov. Turner 2024

5A. Choanosomal skeleton a dense, confused mass of tylostyles formed into a reticulate network; ectosome with only sparse brushes of upright tylostyles and some tangential tylostyles: Pseudosuberites latke sp. nov. Turner 2024

5B. Choanosomal skeleton confused and/or containing radial tracts; ectosome packed with numerous upright tylostyles in a palisade or in bouquets........................................................................................ 6

6A. Containing centrotylote microstrongyles................................................................... 7

6B. No centrotylote microstrongyles......................................................................... 9

7A. Maximum tylostyle length <500 μm...................................................................... 8

7B. Maximum tylostyle length> 500 μm; sponge sampled from deep water; associated with hermit crab; centrotylote microstrongyles densely packed in ectosome & less common in chaonosome: Suberites californiana sp. nov. Turner 2024

8A. Centrotylote microstrongyles densely packed in ectosome & less common in chaonosome; sponge sampled from shallow water; not associated with hermit crab: Suberites kumeyaay sp. nov. Turner 2024

8B. Centrotylote microstrongyles more common in choanosome or very rare in both choanosome and ectosome; sponge sampled from deep water; associated with hermit crab: Suberites latus Lambe 1893 (in part)

9A. Tylostyles average over 350 μm in length and/or 10 μm in width: Suberites lambei Austin, Ott, Reiswig, Romagosa & McDaniel, 2014 (in part)

9B. Tylostyles average less than 350 μm in length and less than 10 μm in width...................................... 10

10A. Sponge sampled from deep water; associated with hermit crab; maximum tylostyle length <500 μm; tylostyles with well-formed heads: Suberites latus Lambe 1893 (in part)

10B. Sponge sampled from the shallow subtidal or intertidal; not associated with hermit crab: Suberites lambei Austin, Ott, Reiswig, Romagosa & McDaniel, 2014 (in part)

Notes

Published as part of Turner, Thomas L., Rouse, Greg W., Weigel, Brooke L., Janusson, Carly, Lemay, Matthew A. & Thacker, Robert W., 2024, Taxonomy and phylogeny of the family Suberitidae (Porifera: Demospongiae) in California, pp. 1-28 in Zootaxa 5447 (1) on pages 23-24, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5447.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/11119126

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Porifera
Order
Suberitida
Family
Suberitidae
Taxon rank
family

References

  • de Laubenfels, M. W. (1961) Porifera of Friday Harbor and vicinity. Pacific Science, 15, 192 - 202.
  • de Laubenfels, M. W. (1930) The Sponges of California. Stanford University Bulletin, 5, 24 - 29.
  • de Laubenfels, M. W. (1926) New sponges from California. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 9, 567 - 573. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222932608633444
  • Lambe, L. M. (1893) On some sponges from the Pacific Coast of Canada and Behring Sea. Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, 10, 67 - 78.
  • Austin, W. C., Ott, B. S., Reiswig, H. M., Romagosa, P. & McDaniel, N. G. (2014) Taxonomic review of Hadromerida (Porifera, Demospongiae) from British Columbia, Canada, and adjacent waters, with the description of nine new species. Zootaxa, 3823 (1), 1 - 84. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3823.1.1