<i>Antho brattegardi</i>sp.n (Porifera: Poecilosclerida), with remarks on and a key to the clathriids of Norwegian waters

Soest, R.W.M. van; Stone, Sean M.

doi:10.1080/00364827.1986.10419672

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“…Actually Bowerbank measured small toxas 50 µm long and large toxas 130 µm long dividing them in two size categories. Van Soest and Stone (1986) confirm the large variability of spicule size. The species is a new finding for the coralligenous community and the Ligurian Sea.…”

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“…This specimen, like that described by van Soest and Stone (1986), differs from the type material in the toxa dimensions. Actually Bowerbank measured small toxas 50 µm long and large toxas 130 µm long dividing them in two size categories.…”

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“…This species has been recorded on rocky walls and on mollusc shells from 10 to 180 m depth (Bowerbank 1866, Arndt 1934, Pulitzer-Finali 1983, van Soest and Stone 1986). It is widely distributed in the Mediterranean Sea (Northern Adriatic Sea, Alboran Sea and Ionian Sea (Pansini and Longo 2003, 2008) and along the Atlantic coast of Europe: Arctic, Sweden, Ireland, United Kingdom, France (van Soest et al 2013).…”

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Diversity of Porifera in the Mediterranean coralligenous accretions, with description of a new species

Bertolino¹,

Cerrano²,

Bavestrello³

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Temperate reefs, built by multilayers of encrusting algae accumulated during hundreds to thousands of years, represent one of the most important habitats of the Mediterranean Sea. These bioconstructions are known as “coralligenous” and their spatial complexity allows the formation of heterogeneous microhabitats offering opportunities for a large number of small cryptic species hardly ever considered.Although sponges are the dominant animal taxon in the coralligenous rims with both insinuating and perforating species, this group is until now poorly known. Aim of this work is to develop a reference baseline about the taxonomic knowledge of sponges and, considering their high level of phenotypic plasticity, evaluate the importance of coralligenous accretions as a pocket for biodiversity conservation.Collecting samples in four sites along the coast of the Ligurian Sea, we recorded 133 sponge taxa (115 of them identified at species level and 18 at genus level). One species, Eurypon gracilis is new for science; three species, Paratimea oxeata, Clathria (Microciona) haplotoxa and Eurypon denisae are new records for the Italian sponge fauna, eleven species are new findings for the Ligurian Sea. Moreover, seventeen species have not been recorded before from the coralligenous community. The obtained data, together with an extensive review of the existing literature, increase to 273 the number of sponge species associated with the coralligenous concretions and confirm that this habitat is an extraordinary reservoir of biodiversity still largely unexplored, not only taxonomically, but also as to peculiar adaptations and life histories.

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Diversity of Porifera in the Mediterranean coralligenous accretions, with description of a new species

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“…The presence of auxiliary echinating acanthostyles suggests the location of this species in the genus Plocamilla instead of the genus Antho Gray, 1867, although in the opinion of Van Soest and Stone (1986), the presence/absence of echinating acanthostyles is not evidence enough to merit generic distinction.…”

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Demosponges of the red coral bottoms from the Alboran Sea

Maldonado

1992

Journal of Natural History

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This paper deals with a study of demosponge fauna inhabiting the red coral facies on the circalitoral bottoms surrounding the Alboran Island (Western Mediterranean, Alboran Sea). A total of 58 species were recognized, after examining a total of 107 sponges. Two of these species are new to science (Plakinastrella mixta sp. nov. and Leptolabis megachela sp. nov.) and another one (Rhaphidectyon spinosum Topsent) is recorded for the first time in the Mediterranean. Some other specimens collected belonging to poorly known species, such as Erylus papulifer Pulitzer-Finali, Isops anceps (Vosmaer), Spongosorites ravens Pulitzer-Finali and Timea cumana Pulitzer-Finali, are described briefly. Two controversial specimens, assigned to Microciona spinarcus and Plocamilla cf. novizelanica, are also described and discussed. A high degree of epibiosis and abundance of rare species were the major features characterizing the material studied.

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“…De Laubenfels (1930, 1932) erected the genus Jia for a Californian species, Jia jia , with a rather confusedly reticulate skeleton of styles, ectosomal subtylostyles, and a microsclere complement of palmate isochelae and toxas to which were added tiny peculiar J-shaped spicules. A second species possessing these microscleres was described from Norwegian waters by Van Soest & Stone (1986). The structure of that species was so obviously similar to members of the genus Antho , in particular Antho coriacea (Bowerbank, 1866) that these authors named it Antho brattegardi .…”

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Crooked Anthos: proposed subgeneric status of Jia (Porifera, Poecilosclerida), with descriptions of four new species

2014

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Jia De Laubenfels, 1930 was erected to accommodate Californian Jia jia, a microcionid sponge possessing a unique J-shaped microsclere, subsequently named croca (crook, shepherd's staff). In later revisions, the genus was assigned to the synonymy of Antho Gray, 1867 because of similarity in skeletal and spicular characters with that large worldwide genus. Over the years, two additional species, one Atlantic, one from the Tropical East Pacific, were found to possess the crocae, and here four additional species with these intriguing spicules are described from Indo-West and East Pacific localities. It appears that now seven species, all Antho-like, are known to possess crocae, together distributed over all three oceans. This leads us to hypothesize that crocae are a shared character of a monophyletic group of Antho species and accordingly we propose to revive Jia as a subgenus of Antho. The four new species are Antho (Jia) galapagosensis sp. nov., Antho (Jia) lithisticola sp. nov., Antho (Jia) wunschorum sp. nov. and Antho (Jia) ramosa sp. nov.

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Antho brattegardisp.n (Porifera: Poecilosclerida), with remarks on and a key to the clathriids of Norwegian waters

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Diversity of Porifera in the Mediterranean coralligenous accretions, with description of a new species

Diversity of Porifera in the Mediterranean coralligenous accretions, with description of a new species

Demosponges of the red coral bottoms from the Alboran Sea

Crooked Anthos: proposed subgeneric status of Jia (Porifera, Poecilosclerida), with descriptions of four new species

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