Polymastia sasuensis Kim & Sim 2021, n. sp.
Creators
- 1. Natural History Museum, Hannam University, Daejeon 34430, Republic of Korea
- 2. Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Hannam University, Daejeon 34430, Republic of Korea
Description
8. Polymastia sasuensis n. sp. (Fig. 10)
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Type specimen. Holotype (NIBRIV0000881729), Korea: Sasudo, Chuja-myeon, Jeju-si, Jeju-do, 2 Jun 2013, by SCUBA, depth 30-35 m, deposited in NIBR.
Description. Cushion shape sponge, size up to 7 × 6.5 × 4 cm. Surface with numerous protruding small papillae. Oscules open at apical of each conical papillae, 0.5 mm in diameter. Color is grayish green. Texture firm.
Skeleton: Ectosome 1 mm thick and densely packed with spicules and collagen. Thin long tylostyles brushed out to the surface in combination with medium and small sized spicules. In choanosome, long spicules around 900 μm, mix with medium and small sized spicules. Large tylostyles, 700-1,100 × 8-15 μm, medium tylostyles, 500-600 × 10 μm and small tylostyles, 150- 350 × 3-7 μm.
Etymology. The species name, sasuensis, is named after type locality Sasudo, Chuja-myeon, Jeju-do.
Remarks. This new species is similar to P. viridis in sponge shape but differs in thickness of spicules. In P. viridis, large and small tylostyles are thicker than P. sasuensis.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- SCUBA, NIBR
- Event date
- 2013-06-02
- Family
- Polymastiidae
- Genus
- Polymastia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Polymastiida
- Phylum
- Porifera
- Scientific name authorship
- Kim & Sim
- Species
- sasuensis
- Taxonomic status
- sp. nov.
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Verbatim event date
- 2013-06-02
- Taxonomic concept label
- Polymastia sasuensis Kim & Sim, 2021