Artemisina apollinis ( Ridley & Dendy, 1886 )

Schejter, Laura, Cristobo, Javier & Ríos, Pilar, 2024, New records of demosponges (Porifera) from the South Orkney Islands (Antarctica) with a checklist for the region, Zootaxa 5403 (4), pp. 401-430 : 407-408

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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5403.4.1

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10562136

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scientific name

Artemisina apollinis ( Ridley & Dendy, 1886 )
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Artemisina apollinis ( Ridley & Dendy, 1886) View in CoL

( Fig 3a–e View FIGURE 3 )

Restricted synonymy: Amphilectus apollinis Ridley & Dendy, 1886 ; Artemisina dianae Topsent, 1907 .

Material examined: 4 specimens collected in stations 1 ( SOI; 60°28'S, 46°29'W; 139 m; GoogleMaps 19/2/2014; MACN-In 44357; IEO-CSIC Col.), 4 ( SOI; 60°55'S, 44°04'W; 256 m; GoogleMaps 2/3/2014; MACN-In 44358) and 18 ( SOI; 60°47,561'S, 45°36,854'W; 96 m; 10/3/2012; MACN-In 44356; IEO-CSIC Col.) GoogleMaps .

Description: Massive slightly digitate specimen, cavernous in aspect, brown colour ( Figure 3a View FIGURE 3 ). Spicules are: megascleres: thick styles of 530–700 µm by 10–40 µm and long and thin ectosomal styles of 450–520 µm by 5 µm; microscleres: toxas with spined ends 480–640 µm and small isochelae 15–20 µm ( Figure 3b–e View FIGURE 3 ).

Remarks: This species was previously recorded in Antarctic and subantarctic waters by Topsent (1908), Koltun (1964), Ríos et al. (2004), Ríos (2006), Fernández et al. (2021), among others. This represents the first record for the SOI.

Fernandez, A. A., Lemina, N. A. & Schejter, L. (2021) Sponges (Porifera: Demospongiae) recorded at the South Shetland Islands and near the Antarctic Peninsula during the Argentinian Summer Antarctic Expedition in 2012. Proceedings of the 1 st. International Electronic Conference on Biological Diversity, Ecology and Evolution, March 15 - 30, 2021. Biology and Life Sciences Forum, 2, 38. https: // doi. org / 10.3390 / BDEE 2021 - 09470

Koltun, V. M. (1964) Sponges of the Antarctic. 1 Tetraxonida and Cornacuspongida. In: Pavlovskii, E. P., Andriyashev, A. P. & Ushakov, P. V. (Eds.), Biological Reports of the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1955 - 1958). Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Moscow- Leningrad, pp. 6 - 133 + 443 - 448.

Ridley, S. O. & Dendy, A. (1886) Preliminary report on the Monaxonida collected by H. M. S. Challenger. Part I. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 18, 325 - 351, 470 - 493. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222938609459998

Rios, P., Cristobo, F. J. & Urgorri, V. (2004) Poecilosclerida (Porifera, Demospongiae) collected by the Spanish Antarctic expedition BENTART- 94. Cahiers de Biologie Marine, 45, 97 - 119.

Rios, P. (2006) Esponjas del Orden Poecilosclerida de las campanas espanolas de bentos antartico. PhD Thesis, Santiago de Compostela University, Santiago, 527 pp.

Topsent, E. (1907) Poecilosclerides nouvelles recueillies par le Francais dans l'Antarctique. Bulletin du Museum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris, 13, 69 - 76.

Topsent, E. (1908) Spongiaires. Expedition antarctique francaise (1903 - 1905) commandee par le Dr Jean Charcot, Paris, 4, 1 - 37.

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FIGURE 3. a–e. Artemisina apollinis. a. general morphology, scale: 7 cm; b. thick style, scale: 120 µm; c. ectosomal style, 100 µm; d. toxa, scale: 350 µm; e. isochelae, 20 µm; f–j. Artemisina plumosa. f, general morphology, scale: 15 mm; g. principal style, scale 115 µm; h. ectosomal style, scale: 65 µm; i. toxa, scale: 50 µm; j. isochelae, 10 µm; k–n. Clathria (A.) nidificata, k. general morphology, scale: 3 cm; l. style, 200 µm; m. toxa, scale: 300 µm; n. detail of one dried branch, scale: 3 mm.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Porifera

Class

Demospongiae

SubClass

Heteroscleromorpha

Order

Poecilosclerida

Family

Microcionidae

SubFamily

Ophlitaspongiinae

Genus

Artemisina