Phelloderma, Göcke, Christian & Janussen, Dorte, 2013

Göcke, Christian & Janussen, Dorte, 2013, Demospongiae of ANT XXIV / 2 (SYSTCO I) Expedition — Antarctic Eastern Weddell Sea, Zootaxa 3692 (1), pp. 28-101 : 63

Phelloderma sp. nov.

( Fig. 10 B)

Material. 1 specimen (holotype) from station 039-11 (SMF 11726), 2151.5 m, 64° 28.80' S, 2° 52.52' E, 0 3.01.2008.

Description. A rounded encrusting sponge of 19 mm diameter overgrowing a rock. Without specialized ectosome, choanosomal skeleton consisting of radially arranged bundles of styles. Spicules styles, slightly polytylote, 580–710 x 14–17 µm, arcuate isochelae 27–38 µm, and oxychaetes 118–168 µm.

Remarks. The specimen and new species will be described in detail separately by Hajdu et al. (in prep.).

Figures

FIGURE 10. Habitus pictures. A: Myxilla (Burtonanchora) asigmata (Topsent, 1901) (SMF 11824), in ethanol, B: Phelloderma sp. nov. (SMF 11726), large sponge, growing besides small T. semisuberites (SMF 11727), alive, ex situ, C: Mycale (Oxymycale) acerata Kirkpatrick, 1907 (SMF 11800), alive, ex situ, D: Axinella antarctica (Koltun, 1964) (SMF 11835), in ethanol, E: Hemigellius bidens (Topsent, 1901) (SMF 11793), in ethanol, F: Hemigellius fimbriatus (Kirkpatrick, 1907) (SMF 11810), in ethanol, G: Cladocroce gaussiana (Hentschel, 1914) (SMF 11837), in ethanol, H: Haliclona (Reniera) sp. (SMF 11818), in ethanol. Scale bars: A: 10 mm, B: 5 mm, C: 40 mm, D: 5 mm, E: 10 mm, F: 10 mm, G: 10 mm, H: 10 mm.