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Published: 2018-08-31
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Four new species of Hexactinellida (Porifera) and a name replacement from the NE Pacific

Department of Biology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, V8P 5C2, Canada Natural History Section, Royal British Columbia Museum, Victoria, British Columbia V8W 9W2, Canada
Porifera glass sponges hexactinellids Pinulasma Farrea Rhabdocalyptus Staurocalyptus Hyalascus

Abstract

Four new species of Hexactinellida are described from the northwest coast of North America. Two northern ones from bottom longline sablefish traps set on Bowie Seamount off northwest Canada are Pinulasma bowiensis and Rhabdocalyptus trichotis. Two southern forms picked by ROV from the wreck of USS Independence off San Francisco, California are Staurocalyptus pamelaturnerae and Hyalascus farallonensis. A fifth specimen from the southern site is considered conspecific with the junior homonym Farrea aculeata Schulze, and allowed renaming of that species as Farrea schulzei. These additions bring the number of Hexactinellida known from the area (30º–90º N) to 62 species.

 

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