A new glass sponge genus (Hexactinellida: Euplectellidae) from abyssal depth of the Yap Trench, northwestern Pacific Ocean
Author
Shen, Chengcheng
Author
Dohrmann, Martin
Author
Zhang, Dongsheng
Author
Lu, Bo
Author
Wang, Chunsheng
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-03-15
4567
2
367
378
journal article
28348
10.11646/zootaxa.4567.2.9
031856dd-4818-40c5-9645-c4ad5f4e88ee
1175-5326
2595030
7A20F557-E4AD-4638-9861-7BBDF3256B87
Subfamily
Bolosominae
Tabachnick, 2002
Emended definition
(after
Tabachnick 2002
): Basiphytose
or rhizophytous
Euplectellidae
with peduncle.
Remarks:
Although erection of a new subfamily for
Rhizophyta
gen. nov.
would have been a possibility, we refrained from it because classification of euplectellids according to attachment mode is clearly artificial (
Dohrmann
et al.
2017
). We nevertheless retain the obviously paraphyletic
Bolosominae
(see below and
Dohrmann
et al.
2017
) here for purely practical purposes, pending major revision or abolishment of euplectellid subfamily division.