A review of the Hexactinellida (Porifera) of Chile, with the first record of Caulophacus Schulze, 1885 (Lyssacinosida: Rossellidae) from the Southeastern Pacific Ocean
Author
Reiswig, Henry M.
Author
Araya, Juan Francisco
text
Zootaxa
2014
3889
3
414
428
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3889.3.4
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1175-5326
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Schulzeviella gigas
(
Schulze, 1886
)
Poliopogon gigas
Schulze, 1886
: 67
;
Schulze 1887
: 257
, pls. XLVII & XLVIII.
Schulzeviella gigas spinosum
Tabachnick, 1990
: 161
, pl. 1, figs 1–5, pl. 2, figs 1–6.
Schulzeviella gigas
(
Schulze, 1886
)
:
Tabachnick & Menshenina, 2002
: 1274
, fig. 4.
Remarks.
This species was originally described from between the Raoul and Macaulay Islands, to the north of
New Zealand
(
29°45'00” S
;
178°11'00” W
, RV Challenger, station 170) at a depth of 630 fathoms (=
1150 m
) (
Schulze, 1887
). In
Chile
this species has been recorded only in the Nazca ridge, in several seamounts by the RV Professor Shtockman (
19°31’24” S
to
19º34’06” S
;
80°13’18” W
to
80º15'24” W
) at a depth of
850–900 m
(
Tabachnick, 1990
). This species has not been registered again since then.