New carnivorous sponges from the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia collected by ROV from the RV FALKOR
Author
Ekins, Merrick
Queensland Museum, PO Box 3300, South Brisbane 4101, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia & School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, 4072 Australia & Griffith Institute for Drug Discovery, Griffith University, Brisbane 4111, Queensland, Australia
Author
Hooper, John N. A.
0000-0003-1722-5954
Queensland Museum, PO Box 3300, South Brisbane 4101, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia & Griffith Institute for Drug Discovery, Griffith University, Brisbane 4111, Queensland, Australia & john. hooper @ qm. qld. gov. au; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 1722 - 5954
john.hooper@qm.qld.gov.au
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Zootaxa
2023
2023-05-23
5293
3
435
471
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5293.3.2
journal article
53431
10.11646/zootaxa.5293.3.2
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1175-5326
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Genus
Asbestopluma
Topsent, 1901
[
Cometella
]
Schmidt, 1870:49
(
nomen oblitum
) [
Asbestopluma
]
Lankester, 1882: 478
(
nomen nudum
)
Asbestopluma
Topsent, 1901b: 23
Helophloeina
Topsent, 1929: 8
Not
Lycopodina
Lundbeck, 1905: 58
Cotylina
Lundbeck, 1905: 68
.
Diagnosis.
Cladorhizidae
with at least one small category of palmate isochelae, in a few cases modified to anchorate unguiferate, anisochelae. Usually with a second larger
type
of palmate to arcuate anisochelae that may in some cases be modified to isochelae, anisoplacochela or tridentate anchorate chela. Sigmancistras and basal acantho(sub)(tylo)styles are also present with a few exceptions. Never forceps spicules (from
Hestetun
et al
. 2016b
).
Type
species.
Cladorhiza pennatula
(
Schmidt, 1875
)
(by subsequent designation,
Topsent, 1901b
).