Fourteen new species of demosponges (Porifera) from three coastal fjords in southern British Columbia, Canada
Author
Ott, B.
Author
Mcdaniel, N.
McDaniel Marine Surveys, 3540 West 35 th Ave, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V 6 N 2 N 5.
Author
Humphrey, E.
0000-0002-3743-0261
text
Zootaxa
2024
2024-06-05
5463
2
151
200
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5463.2.1
journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.5463.2.1
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Genus
Hymeniacidon
Bowerbank, 1858
Hymeniacidon
species
are defined as
Halichondriidae
with encrusting or massively lobate shape and exclusively small styles (>
500 mm
) for megascleres. Ectosomal tangential skeleton of intercrossing bundles and single megascleres. Choanosomal skeleton with ascending vague bundles and many loose, confusedly arranged megascleres
(
Erpenbeck & Van Soest 2002
[2004]). Fifty-four species are recognized worldwide (de Voogd, et al. 2023). The genus is cosmopolitan existing in all of the world’s oceans with the exception of the Bering, Black and Caspian seas; depth distribution is discontinuous from littoral to
440 m
.