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Issue: Vol. 3826 No. 2: 30 Jun. 2014
Type: Article
Published: 2014-06-30
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3826.2.4
Page range: 341–355
Abstract views: 19
PDF downloaded: 1

Aleutian Ancorinidae (Porifera, Astrophorida): Description of three new species from the genera Stelletta and Ancorina

Eichenstr. 14, 86507 Oberottmarshausen, Germany, and GeoBio-Center LMU München, Richard Wagner Straße 10, 80333 München, Germany.
Auke Bay Laboratories, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA, 17109 Point Lena Loop, Juneau, Alaska 99801 USA.
new demosponges Aleutian Islands Alaska North Pacific Bering Sea

Abstract

Two new species of the genus Stelletta and one new species of Ancorina are described from the Aleutian Islands of Alaska and compared to congeners of the region. This is the first record of the genus Ancorina in the North Pacific Ocean. Stelletta ovalae Tanita 1965 is also reported for the first time from the Bering Sea and Alaska.