WoRMS taxon details
Agelas linnaei De Voogd, Parra-Velandia & Van Soest, 2008
AphiaID: 255171
AphiaID: 255171
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Agelasida (Order) > Agelasidae (Family) > Agelas (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||
| Parent | Agelas Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 | |||||||
| Source |
original description: De Voogd, N.J.; Parra-Velandia, F.J.; Van Soest, R.W.M. 2008. A new Agelas (Demospongiae: Agelasida: Agelasidae) from the Thousand Islands, West-Java, Indonesia. Zoölogische Mededelingen Leiden 82 (22): 235-243. [details] [full text]
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| Environment | marine, | |||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||
| Distribution | Indonesia [details] Sunda Shelf/Java Sea [details] | |||||||
| Specimen | Holotype: RMNH POR. 2109, locality Indonesia (Peniki E Island, Thousand Islands, NW Java) [details] | |||||||
| Link | To Encyclopedia of Life | |||||||
| Note |
Shape and size.— Roundly lobate to thickly flabellate. Holotype consists of four separate pieces. The largest piece is 14 cm in width, 8 cm in height and 2.5 cm in diameter (diameter, height, width), but specimens can grow much larger. Colour.— Bright orange externally to cream-orange internally. Surface and consistency.— Texture: very soft, spongy; dermis is a bright easily dis- tinguishable membrane, with dense concentrations of conules. The conule height varies from 1 to 3 mm. Small apertures (< 2 mm) are scattered across the body, in between some lobes bigger pores (2-3 mm) may be observed connected to internal axial channels. Skeleton.— The interior is densely punctured by primary canals 200 µm-2 mm in diameter, from which secondary canals radiate, 100 µm-1.0 mm wide. The conules are reinforced internally by tracts of fibers. The skeleton is an irregular and dense reticulation of spongin fibres; primary fibres (35-80 µm in diameter), aggregated in packs, more or less undulated, heavily cored (1-7 spicules in cross section) and echinated; secondary interconnecting fibres (25-40 µm in diameter) are not cored and less echinated than the primaries; tertiary fibres (20-30 µm in diameter) present and echinated in a similar fashion as the secondaries, also uncored. Meshes irregular from 100-250 µm in diameter. Spicules.— Acanthostyles (N = 100) are straight, but a few are slightly curved; the whorls, measured in the middle third of the spicule, have 5-12 spines depending on the width, they are conspicuous in the spicule center but sometimes faint and irregular at the spicule tip and head; the average length of spicules is 187 µm (78.7-372.3 µm), the average width is 12.1 µm (5.2-24 µm) and the average number of whorls is 19.3 (11-33). Ecology.— Locally very abundant, overgrowing other reef invertebrates. Distribution.— Only observed at type locality, Peniki Island and the island Payang Kecil in the Thousands Islands Reef complex, off Jakarta, West-Java, Indonesia. Etymology.— The species is named to honour Carolus Linnaeus, or Carl von Linné, to celebrate 250 years of binomial nomenclature. [details] | |||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:255171 | |||||||
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Agelas linnaei De Voogd, Parra-Velandia & Van Soest, 2008. In: Van Soest, R.W.M; Boury-Esnault, N.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Rützler, K.; de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez de Glasby, B.; Hajdu, E.; Pisera, A.B.; Manconi, R.; Schoenberg, C.; Janussen, D.; Tabachnick, K.R., Klautau, M.; Picton, B.; Kelly, M.; Vacelet, J.; Dohrmann, M.; Cristina Díaz, M. (2013) World Porifera database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=255171 on 2013-05-19 | ||||||||
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