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Porifera source details
Ekins, M.; Debitus, C.; Erpenbeck, D.; Hooper, J.N.A. (2018). A new species of the sponge Raspailia (Raspaxilla) (Porifera: Demospongiae: Axinellida: Raspailiidae) from deep seamounts of the Western Pacific. Zootaxa. 4410 (2): 379.
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Ekins, M.; Debitus, C.; Erpenbeck, D.; Hooper, J.N.A.
2018
A new species of the sponge <i>Raspailia</i> (<i>Raspaxilla</i>) (Porifera: Demospongiae: Axinellida: Raspailiidae) from deep seamounts of the Western Pacific
Zootaxa
4410 (2): 379
Publication
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A new species of Raspailia (Raspaxilla) frondosa sp. nov. is described from the deep seamounts of the Norfolk and New Caledonia Ridges. The morphology of the species resembles that of a frond or a fern, and its unique highly compressed axial skeleton of interlaced spongin fibres without spicules in combination with a radial extra axial skeleton of a perpendicular palisade of spicules, differentiate it from all other species of the subgenus. This species is compared morphologically to all 18 other valid species described in Raspailia (Raspaxilla).
Western Pacific warm temperate and tropical
Systematics, Taxonomy
Date action by
Raspailia (Raspaxilla) frondosa Ekins, Debitus, Erpenbeck & Hooper, 2018 (original description)
New Caledonia for Raspailia (Raspaxilla) frondosa Ekins, Debitus, Erpenbeck & Hooper, 2018
Holotype MNHN MNHN-IP-2015-1402 (fragment of the holotype QM G335124), geounit New Caledonia, identified as Raspailia (Raspaxilla) frondosa Ekins, Debitus, Erpenbeck & Hooper, 2018
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