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Issue: Vol. 4410 No. 2: 17 Apr. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-04-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4410.2.7
Page range: 379–386
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A new species of the sponge Raspailia (Raspaxilla) (Porifera: Demospongiae: Axinellida: Raspailiidae) from deep seamounts of the Western Pacific

Queensland Museum, PO Box 3300, South Brisbane 4101, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, 4072 Australia
LEMAR, IRD, CNRS, IFREMER, UBO, IUEM, rue Dumont d’Urville, 29280 Plouzané, France
Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences and GeoBio-Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Richard-Wagner-Straße 10, 80333 München, Germany
Queensland Museum, PO Box 3300, South Brisbane 4101, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Griffith Institute for Drug Discovery, Griffith University, Brisbane 4111, Queensland, Australia
Porifera Raspailia Raspaxilla Aulospongus Seamounts Norfolk New Caledonia rhabdostyles

Abstract

A new species of Raspailia (Raspaxilla) frondosa sp. nov. is described from the deep seamounts of the Norfolk and New Caledonia Ridges. The morphology of the species resembles that of a frond or a fern, and its unique highly compressed axial skeleton of interlaced spongin fibres without spicules in combination with a radial extra axial skeleton of a perpendicular palisade of spicules, differentiate it from all other species of the subgenus. This species is compared morphologically to all 18 other valid species described in Raspailia (Raspaxilla).

 

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