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Issue: Vol. 2883 No. 1: 19 May 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-05-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2883.1.1
Page range: 1–22
Abstract views: 24
PDF downloaded: 1

Revision of Aspidoscopulia Reiswig, 2002 (Porifera: Hexactinellida: Farreidae) with description of two new species

P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Biophysical Department, Physical Faculty, MSU 2, b.2, Moscow State University, Moscow, 119992, Russia
Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Twarda 51/55, 00-818, Warszawa, Poland
Institute of Bioanalytical Chemistry, Dresden University of Technology, D-01069 Dresden, Germany
Porifera West Pacific new species metamery branching

Abstract

The genus Aspidoscopulia previously known from a single Recent representative from the Indonesian Archipelago has been found to have wide West Pacific distribution, being present in large numbers in French and Russian collections. Two new Recent species of this genus, i.e. A. bisymmetrica sp. n. and A. tetrasymmetrica sp. n., are here described and illustrated. The genus is also found to have fossil record in the late Paleocene-early Eocene of the Chatham Islands, New Zealand. The generic diagnosis of Aspidoscopulia is emended due to new findings. Branching pattern and metamery occurring in these sponges are also discussed.

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