Biemna spinomicroxea Mothes, Campos, Lerner, Carraro, Van & Soest, 2005, sp. nov.
Description
Biemna spinomicroxea sp. nov.
Figs. 2 A–I
Material examined. Holotype MCNPOR 1887, off the coast of Amapá State: 03°56'00" N – 50°00'07" W, 81 m depth; coll. R/V ‘Almirante Saldanha’, 07.XII.1968; substratum sand.
Comparative material. Biemna oxeata Van Soest & Stentoft, 1988 – ZMAPOR 5420 (holotype), Barbados (fragment deposited in MCNPOR 2593); Biemna tubulata (Dendy, 1905) sensu Van Soest, 1984 – ZMAPOR 3520, Puerto Rico (fragment deposited in MCNPOR 2618); B. microacanthosigma Mothes, Hajdu, Lerner & Van Soest, 2004 – MCNPOR 1898, Amapá State, Brazil; B. trisigmata Mothes & Campos, 2004 – MCNPOR 1897, Amapá State, Brazil.
Description. Massive, irregular but slightly lobate, internally cavernous (Fig. 2 A). Measurements: 3.5 cm length, 2.0 cm width and 2.0 cm thick. Surface hispid, from to protruding spicules. Oscules scattered over the surface, the larger ones measuring 0.2 cm in diameter. Consistency of preserved material soft, easily compressible. Colour alive unknown, in alcohol light brown.
Skeleton (Fig. 2 B). Plumoreticulate, not differentiated into ectosomal or choanosomal skeleton. Megascleres arranged in ascending tracts, 3–5 spicules thick, at 190–332.5 m distance from each other, widening slightly near the surface and connected by single spicules or transverse tracts 1–3 spicules thick. Only nodal spongin present. Between the spicule tracts, some microscleres are found randomly distributed.
Spicules. Oxeas (Fig. 2 CD): slightly curved, rarely straight; extremities lightly stepped, a few slightly strongylote; length: 370.5– 409. 4 – 437 m, width: 9.2– 11. 6 – 13.8 m. Sigmas (Fig. 2 EF): shallowcurved, with longspined extremities; length: 16.1– 17. 6 – 20.7 m, width: 1.0 m. Microxeas in two sizes (Fig. 2 GI): larger (Fig. 2 GH), straight, microspined; length: 103– 133. 4 – 152 m, width: 2.3– 3.2 – 4.6 m; Smaller (Fig. 2 I), smooth, slightly curved, a few straight; length: 87.5– 113. 7 – 152.5 m, width: less than 2.5 m.
Remarks. Until now there were five valid species of genus Biemna known in the tropical West Atlantic: B. microstyla de Laubenfels, 1950; B. cribaria (Alcolado & Gotera, 1986) (senior synonym of B. oxeata Van Soest & Stentoft, 1988); B. caribea Pulitzer Finali, 1986 (“ B. tubulata (Dendy, 1905) ” sensu Van Soest, 1984); B. microacanthosigma Mothes, Hajdu, Lerner & Van Soest, 2004; B. trisigmata Mothes & Campos, 2004; the new species, B. spinomicroxea, brings the number to six. The latter species shares the oxeote megascleres with B. cribaria, which however lacks microxeas and has two size categories of sigmas. The remaining Biemna species have styles as megascleres.
Etymology. The specific name is given to signal the presence of a spined microxea.
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Additional details
Identifiers
- URL
- http://treatment.plazi.org/id/B355CC6AF44A0879FEC7FED78F13F948
- LSID
- urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:92830D29-DB49-44F4-9E8D-262C20897567
Biodiversity
- Family
- Desmacellidae
- Genus
- Biemna
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Poecilosclerida
- Phylum
- Porifera
- Species
- spinomicroxea
- Taxonomic status
- sp. nov.
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Biemna spinomicroxea Mothes, Campos, Lerner, Carraro, Van & Soest, 2005
References
- Soest, R. W. M. Van & Stentoft, N. (1988) Barbados deep water sponges. Studies on the Fauna of Curacao and other Caribbean Islands, 70, 1 - 175.
- Soest, R. W. M. Van. (1984) Marine sponges from Curacao and other Caribbean localities. Part III: Poecilosclerida. Studies on the Fauna of Curacao and other Caribbean Islands, 66 (192), 1 - 175.
- Mothes, B., Hajdu, E., Lerner, C. & Soest, R. W. M. Van (2004 c) Two new species (Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida) from the N-NE Brazilian continental shelf. In: Pansini, M.; Pronzato, R.; Bavestrello, G. & Manconi, R. (Eds.). Sponge Science in the New Millennium. Bolletino dei Musei e degli Istituti Biologici della Universita di Genova, pp. 477 - 482.
- Laubenfels, M. W. de. (1950) The Porifera of the Bermuda Archipelago. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, 27 (1), 1 - 154.
- Alcolado, P. M. & Gotera, G. G. (1986) Nuevas adiciones a la fauna de poriferos de Cuba. Poeyana, 331, 1 - 19.
- Pulitzer-Finali, G. (1986) A collection of West Indian Demospongiae (Porifera) with, in appendix, a list of the Demospongiae hitherto recorded from the West Indies. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, 86, 65 - 216.