Nullarbora, Ekins & Erpenbeck & Goudie & Hooper, 2020

Ekins, Merrick, Erpenbeck, Dirk, Goudie, Lisa & Hooper, John N. A., 2020, New carnivorous sponges and allied species from the Great Australian Bight, Zootaxa 4878 (2), pp. 240-266 : 244

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4878.2.2

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4426023

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/313FA390-1049-41D6-9CEA-EBFD7B811BCE

taxon LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:act:313FA390-1049-41D6-9CEA-EBFD7B811BCE

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Plazi

scientific name

Nullarbora
status

gen. nov.

Genus Nullarbora View in CoL gen. nov.

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Type species: Nullarbora heptaxia gen nov. sp. nov.

Definition: Cladorhizidae with anchorate anisochelae and a pinnate body shape, i.e. filaments at right angle to a straight stem.

Etymology: Nullus L. null, Arbor L. trees. The Nullarbor Plain is also the name of the land surrounding the Great Australian Bight from where the newly discovered species in this manuscript were collected.

Species also included: N. acanthoxea ( Hestetun, Fourt, Vacelet, Boury-Esnault & Rapp, 2015) , N. caillieti ( Lundsten, Reiswig & Austin, 2014) , N. evae ( Lundsten, Reiswig & Austin, 2014) , N. fristedtii ( Lambe, 1900) , N. grimaldii ( Topsent, 1909) , N. investigator ( Ekins, Erpenbeck & Hooper, 2020) , N. linearis ( Ridley & Dendy, 1887) , N. microchela ( Lévi, 1964) , N. penniformis ( Göcke & Janussen, 2013) , N. pteron ( Reiswig & Lee, 2007) , N. rectangularis ( Ridley & Dendy, 1886) , N. segonzaci ( Vacelet, 2006) and N. septemdentalis ( Koltun, 1970) .

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