Ircinia laeviconulosa, Kelly & Thacker, 2021

Kelly, Joseph B. & Thacker, Robert W., 2021, New shallow water species of Caribbean Ircinia Nardo, 1833 (Porifera: Irciniidae), Zootaxa 5072 (4), pp. 301-323 : 310-311

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5072.4.1

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5748806

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/2F579603-36E6-4D5A-9009-FBB43A99247C

taxon LSID

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Plazi

scientific name

Ircinia laeviconulosa
status

sp. nov.

Ircinia laeviconulosa View in CoL sp. nov.

Figures 8 View FIGURE 8 , 9 View FIGURE 9 ; Tables 1 View TABLE 1 , 2 View TABLE 2 .

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Holotype: USNM 1582283 About USNM (P16x57; 9.35133, -82.2593; appx. 5 m depth; coll. J.B.K. and R.W. T.; 26 July 2016) GoogleMaps . Paratypes: USNM 1582285 About USNM (P16x59; 9.35133, -82.2593; appx. 5 m depth; coll. J.B.K. and R.W. T.; 26 July 2016) GoogleMaps , USNM 1582286 About USNM (P16x60; 9.35133, -82.2593; appx. 5 m depth; coll. J.B.K. and R.W. T.; 26 July 2016) GoogleMaps , USNM 1582288 About USNM (P16x62; 9.35133, -82.2593; appx. 5 m depth; coll. J.B.K. and R.W. T.; 26 July 2016) GoogleMaps .

Type locality: Bocas del Toro, Panama.

External morphology. Ircinia with a massive growth form and dark green pinacoderm ( Figure 8 View FIGURE 8 ). Body diameter 10–15 cm. Possesses low conules (1.5–1.75 mm). Oscula flush, sometimes slightly darker than the exterior of the sponge, 0.4–1.2 cm in diameter, and with a thin dark green or gray membrane.

Interior morphology. Massive fascicular fibers 110–160 µm wide, heavily cored. Interconnecting fibers 20–50 um wide, sparsely cored ( Figure 9 View FIGURE 9 ). Irciniid filaments 1–5 µm wide, terminating in spherical to tear-drop knobs measuring 6–9 µm in diameter.

Ecology. This species is found among Thalassia spp. and coral patches in shallow depths.

Etymology. The name refers to the texture imparted by the species’ low conules.

Remarks. All specimens collected had a globose growth morphology. Referred to as the ‘Massive A green’ growth form in Kelly et al. (2021).

R

Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile

T

Tavera, Department of Geology and Geophysics

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Porifera

Class

Demospongiae

Order

Dictyoceratida

Family

Irciniidae

Genus

Ircinia

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