Chonelasma choanoides ( Schulze & Kirkpatrick, 1910 )

Janussen, Dorte & Reiswig, Henry M., 2009, Hexactinellida (Porifera) from the ANDEEP III Expedition to the Weddell Sea, Antarctica, Zootaxa 2136, pp. 1-20 : 2

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scientific name	Chonelasma choanoides ( Schulze & Kirkpatrick, 1910 )
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Chonelasma choanoides ( Schulze & Kirkpatrick, 1910)

Material examined. Paralectotypes: BMNH 1910.10. 28.46, R.V. 'Gauss', stn 72, NW of Winter Station, Antarctica , 0 1 Mar. 1903, 66º02'09"S, 89 º 38 'E, 2450 m; ZMH S- 2938, RV. 'Gauss', stn 69, NW of Winter Station, Antarctica , 24 Feb. 1903, 66º02'09"S, 89 º 38 'E, 2725 m, ethanol; ANDEEP III material: SMF 10708 View Materials , R.V. 'Polarstern', stn PS 67 / 133 - 2, Weddell Sea, Antarctica , 16 Mar. 2005, 62° 46.49 '– 46.38 'S, 53 °02.57'–03.50'W, 1584 – 1579 m, ethanol.

Description and remarks. Many small, fairly soft fragments of a probable single living specimen were obtained from the epibenthic sled at a single station. Spiculation conforms to that described in Reiswig and Mehl ( 1994). This species is widely distributed around Antarctica and throughout the Atlantic Ocean to Greenland; a symbiotic hydrozoan was noted on the ANDEEP III fragments, not previously mentioned in any of the extensive literature of this species. Janussen et al. ( 2004) reported this species from the Weddell Sea in their description of the ANDEEP II collections.