Ircinia lowi, 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 : 304-305

publication ID

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

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5749708

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/78177724-A5A5-4396-B78D-F6A8181ACB82

taxon LSID

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treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Ircinia lowi
status

sp. nov.

Ircinia lowi View in CoL sp. nov.

Figures 2 View FIGURE 2 , 3 View FIGURE 3 ; Tables 1 View TABLE 1 , 2 View TABLE 2 .

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Holotype: USNM 1582268 About USNM (P16x42; 9.37767, -82.3032; appx. 0.5 m depth; coll. J.B.K.; 22 July 2016). GoogleMaps

Paratypes: USNM 1582267 About USNM (P16x41; 9.37767, -82.3032; appx. 0.5 m depth; coll. J.B.K.; 22 July 2016) GoogleMaps , USNM 1582269 About USNM (P16x43; 9.37767, -82.3032; appx. 0.5 m depth; coll. J.B.K.; 22 July 2016) GoogleMaps , USNM 1582270 About USNM (P16x44; 9.37767, -82.3032; appx. 0.5 m depth; coll. J.B.K.; 22 July 2016) GoogleMaps , USNM 1582278 About USNM (P16x52; 9.37767, -82.3032; appx. 0.4 m depth; coll. J.B.K.; 23 July 2016) GoogleMaps .

Type locality: Bocas del Toro, Panama.

External morphology. Ircinia with a thickly encrusting growth habit and a forest green external surface color. Sometimes possesses lobate, short branches departing from base ( Figure 2 View FIGURE 2 ). Conules small (1.5–2 mm in height), sometimes of lighter color than the rest of the body. The body is dotted with black oscula that are uniform in size (0.4–0.5 cm diameter) and are either slightly elevated or flushed to the surface.

Interior morphology. Primary fascicular fibers 80–200 µm wide, cored. Interconnecting fibers 20–60 um wide, nearly uncored to completely uncored ( Figure 3 View FIGURE 3 ). Irciniid filaments 1–4 µm wide, terminating in spherical knobs 6–10 µm in diameter.

Ecology. All specimens were collected from shallow depths (0.4–0.5 m) on patch reefs that occur in association with small seagrass beds.

Etymology. This species is named for the immunologist Jun Siong Low for his methodological advances in identifying pan-coronavirus antibodies.

Remarks. Tissue takes on a slightly crisper consistency when preserved in ethanol for several days. Referred to as the ‘Encrusting’ growth form in Kelly et al. (2021).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Porifera

Class

Demospongiae

Order

Dictyoceratida

Family

Irciniidae

Genus

Ircinia

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