Neopetrosia pandora de Laubenfels, 1954

Setiawan, Edwin, Erpenbeck, Dirk, Wörheide, Gert & De Voogd, Nicole J., 2018, Bearing the wrong identity: A case study of an Indo-Pacific common shallow water sponge of the genus Neopetrosia (Haplosclerida; Petrosiidae), Zootaxa 4500 (1), pp. 43-58 : 48

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4500.1.2

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5300193

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CE87C3-FF97-7A64-FF5D-B8878FA9FF4F

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scientific name

Neopetrosia pandora de Laubenfels, 1954
status

 

Neopetrosia pandora de Laubenfels, 1954 View in CoL

Figure 1D View FIGURE 1 , 2D View FIGURE 2 , 3D View FIGURE 3 , Table 1

Neopetrosia pandora de Laubenfels, 1954: 81 View in CoL , Fig. 49.

Material examined: Holotype: USNM 23046 View Materials , Palau, Matalim , East Ponape, 1 August 1949, 5m depth, coll. M.W. de Laubenfels.

Description (amended from de Laubenfels 1954): A repent or sprawling ramose sponge, reaching a maximum length of at least 13 cm. The diameter of the branches is 9 mm; oscules are about 2 mm in diameter and 2 cm apart.

Colour. Colour in life is dull olive drab.

Consistency. Slightly spongy but also somewhat stiff, tearing very easily.

Spicules. Oxeas in a range of 100- 119.8 -150 x 2.5- 2.9 -5 µm.

Skeleton. Less dense, more irregular isodictyal spicule network with one size of spicule.

Remarks: De Laubenfels (1954) described that the consistency of the type specimen was slightly spongy, somewhat stiff and tearing very easily. The surface of the type specimen does not possess an ectosomal specialisation, which is a typical characteristic of sponges from Family Chalinidae . Little or lack of spongin in skeleton was observed. The spicules are also much thinner than the other spicules of type specimens and samples analysed in this study.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Porifera

Class

Demospongiae

Order

Haplosclerida

Family

Petrosiidae

Genus

Neopetrosia

Loc

Neopetrosia pandora de Laubenfels, 1954

Setiawan, Edwin, Erpenbeck, Dirk, Wörheide, Gert & De Voogd, Nicole J. 2018
2018
Loc

Neopetrosia pandora

De Laubenfels, M. W. 1954: 81
1954
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