Rossellid glass sponges (Porifera, Hexactinellida) from New Zealand waters, with description of one new genus and six new species
Author
Reiswig, Henry M.
Biology Department, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Author
Dohrmann, Martin
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Palaeontology and Geobiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen, Muenchen, Germany
m.dohrmann@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
Author
Kelly, Michelle
Coasts and Oceans National Centre, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Auckland, New Zealand
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Mills, Sadie
NIWA Invertebrate Collection, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand
Author
Schupp, Peter J.
ICBM Terramare, University of Oldenburg, Wilhelmshaven, Germany & Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity at the University of Oldenburg (HIFMB), Oldenburg, Germany
Author
Woerheide, Gert
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6380-7421
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Palaeontology and Geobiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen, Muenchen, Germany & SNSB - Bayerische Staatssammlung fuer Palaeontologie und Geologie, Muenchen, Germany & GeoBio-Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet, Muenchen, Germany
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ZooKeys
2021
2021-09-17
1060
33
84
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1060.63307
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1060.63307
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Scyphidium Schulze, 1900
Diagnosis.
Body is saccular, basiphytous, sometimes rhizophytous. Choanosomal skeleton is composed of diactins. Hypodermal spicules, if present, are pentactins.
Prostalia
, if present, are hypodermal pentactins and/or diactins. Dermalia are stauractins and/or pentactins in various combinations. Atrialia are mainly hexactins. Microscleres are discohexasters and oxyhexasters often with hemioxyhexasters and oxyhexactins; with two or three types of discohexasters, none as calycocomes. Among the larger is a spherical form with a restricted number of secondary rays (emended from
Tabachnick 2002
).
Remarks.
The genus diagnosis is emended of necessity, to accept
S. australiense
Tabachnick, Janussen & Menschenina, 2008 and
S. variospinosum
sp. nov., described below.
Type species.
Scyphidium septentrionale
Schulze, 1900.