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Issue: Vol. 4126 No. 2: 17 Jun. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-06-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4126.2.2
Page range: 207–220
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Hexactinellida (Porifera) from the Drake Passage (Southern Ocean) with a description of three new species

National Museums Northern Ireland, 153 Bangor Road, Cultra, Holywood, Co. Down, BT18 0EU, UK Queen’s University Marine Laboratory, 2–13 The Strand, Portaferry, BT22 1PF
Ulster Wildlife, 3 New Line, Crossgar, Co Down, Northern Ireland, BT30 9EP, UK
Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Senckenberganlage 25, 60325 Frankfurt
Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Senckenberganlage 25, 60325 Frankfurt
School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Wills Memorial Building, Queen’s Road, Bristol, BS8 1RJ, UK
Porifera Hexactinellida Drake Passage Antarctic sponge taxonomy seamount Sympagella Doconesthes Aulocalyx Caulophacus

Abstract

The Drake Passage has over 20 seamounts and ridges but it is notorious for large waves, fierce storms and strong currents that make benthic sampling difficult and therefore infrequent. Seamounts often have diverse sponge communities and may have high levels of endemism. Hexactinellida from Sars Seamount, an area in which the sponges had not previously been studied, and the Shackleton fracture zone were collected on a research cruise by the Nathaniel B Palmer in the Drake Passage, Southern Ocean. In total, from all cruise stations, 103 specimens of Hexactinellida were collected, however many appeared to be fragments of dead specimens and could not be identified due to missing microscleres. From Sars Seamount 127 sponge specimens were taken and from the Shackleton Fracture Zone 76 sponge specimens were taken; of these 36 and 16 respectively were Hexactinellida. From these two areas three new species of Hexactinellida are described: Doconesthes robinsoni sp. nov., Sympagella walleri sp. nov. and Caulophacus palmeri sp. nov and new records were made of Aulocalyx irregularis and Rossella antarctica.

 

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