Discorhabdella Dendy, 1924

Ott, B., Mcdaniel, N. & Humphrey, E., 2024, Fourteen new species of demosponges (Porifera) from three coastal fjords in southern British Columbia, Canada, Zootaxa 5463 (2), pp. 151-200 : 172

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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5463.2.1

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11622919

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Discorhabdella Dendy, 1924
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Genus Discorhabdella Dendy, 1924 View in CoL

Discorhabdella are Crambeidae with a hymedesmioid skeleton, tylostyles, subtylostyles and unguiferate anchorate isochelas but lacking desmas found in the other genera of the family (Van Soest 2002 [2004]c). There are nine described species worldwide (de Voogd, et al. 2023) located in the Northwest, Northeast and Southwest Pacific, Caribbean and Mediterranean discontinuously from 55 to 736 m depth.All but four species (including Discorhabdella atypica n. sp.) have acanthostyles possessing subapical whorls of spines.

Dendy, A. (1924) Porifera. Part I. Non-Antarctic sponges. Natural History Report. British Antarctic (Terra Nova) Expedition, 1910 (Zoology), 6 (3), 269 - 392, pls. I - XV.