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Issue: Vol. 4450 No. 5: 27 Jul. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-07-27
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4450.5.3
Page range: 565–574
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A new fistulose demosponge species from the Persian Gulf

University of Stuttgart, Institute for Biomaterials and Biomolecular Systems, Scientific Diving Group (WiTUS), Pfaffenwaldring 57, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany
University of Stuttgart, Institute for Biomaterials and Biomolecular Systems, Scientific Diving Group (WiTUS), Pfaffenwaldring 57, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany
TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Scientific Diving Center (SDC), Akademiestraße 6, D-09596 Freiberg, Germany
University of Stuttgart, Institute for Biomaterials and Biomolecular Systems, Scientific Diving Group (WiTUS), Pfaffenwaldring 57, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany
University of Basrah, Marine Science Centre (MSC), Basrah, Iraq
University of Basrah, Marine Science Centre (MSC), Basrah, Iraq
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences & GeoBio-CenterLMU, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Richard-Wagner-Str. 10, 80333 Munich, Germany
Eichenstr. 14, 86507 Oberottmarshausen, Germany & GeoBio-Center LMU München, Richard-Wagner-Str. 10, 80333 Munich, Germany
Porifera Demospongiae Ciocalypta Persian Gulf scientific diving sponges new species

Abstract

During a scientific expedition to the Palinurus Rock, Persian Gulf, Iraq, a reef, which was discovered first in 2012, we found a new species which we tentatively assigned to Ciocalypta (Porifera, Demospongiae, Suberitida, Halichondriidae). Genetic results from different authors (Morrow & Cardenas, 2015, Redmond et al., 2013, Erpenbeck et al., 2012) suggest that several species of Ciocalypta and other species from Suberitida (e.g. several Axinyssa, Petromica, Topsentia, Cymbastela, Halichondria (Eumastia)) are indeed no Suberitida but belong to taxa yet unnamed. The species described here genetically clearly belongs to this new taxon outside Suberitida which awaits definition. Morphologically the new species clearly would be classified as Ciocalypta. Therefore the new species is described and compared to similar morphological species, some of them, as the type species, true Suberitida and true Ciocalypta, others belong to taxa still in need of a name.

 

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