Demospongiae of ANT XXIV / 2 (SYSTCO I) Expedition — Antarctic Eastern Weddell Sea
Author
Göcke, Christian
Author
Janussen, Dorte
text
Zootaxa
2013
3692
1
28
101
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3692.1.5
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1175-5326
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Tentorium papillatum
(Kirkpatrick, 1908)
(
Fig. 3
D)
Tentorium papillatum
Topsent 1917: 36
, pl. 4 fig. 2. Boury-Esnault & van Beveren 1982: 38–39, pl. 5
Synonymy:
Suberites caminatus
var.
papillatus
Kirkpatrick 1908: 20
–21, pl. 15 fig. 16, pl. 16 figs. 11–14.
Suberites papillatus
Burton 1929: 445, 1932: 336
.
Suberites caminatus
Koltun 1964
(partly): 25, pl. 4 figs. 15–18.
Tentorium caminatus
Koltun 1976
(partly): 168.
figs. 17, 18, text-figs. 8c, d, e.
Material.
3 specimens
from station 048-1 (SMF 11785–11787),
602.1 m
,
70° 23.94' S
,
8° 19.14' W
,
12.01.2008
.
Description.
Small, round sponges, encrusting on rocks. Surface with one or two long exhalant chimneys, covered by distinct ostia-bearing papillae. Skeleton made up of tracts of tylostyles about 1530 µm in length running towards the cortex, often branching out on their way. Cortex a uni-spicular palisade of small tylostyles about 350 µm.
Remarks.
Tentorium papillatum
specimens from ANDEEP-expeditions where studied in detail by Plotkin and Janussen (2008). Our new specimens originate from a similar area and show similar characters.