TY  - JOUR
AB  - The monospecific hexactinellid sponge genus Symplectella endemic to New Zealand waters was originally assigned to family Rossellidae within the order Lyssacinosida (subclass Hexasterophora), although affinities to family Euplectellidae were also noted. Seventy-eight years later, the genus was transferred to Euplectellidae (subfamily Corbitellinae) on rather subjective grounds. Here, I test these two competing taxonomic hypotheses with molecular phylogenetic methods and demonstrate that Symplectella rowi is indeed a rossellid, as was originally suggested. The genus is officially transferred back to
Rossellidae (subfamily Rossellinae), which represents another small step towards a more natural classification system of glass sponges.
A1  - Dohrmann, M.
DO  - 10.1017/S0025315414001805
JO  - Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
SP  - 291
EP  - 295
C1  - 96: 291–295
TI  - <i>Symplectella rowi</i> (Porifera: Hexactinellida: Lyssacinosida) is a rossellid, not a euplectellid
UR  - http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=9443875&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S0025315414001805
VL  - 96
PY  - 2016
Y2  - 2026-05-11
ER  -