Lycopodina novangliae, Hestetun & Tompkins-Macdonald & Rapp, 2017

Hestetun, Jon Thomassen, Tompkins-Macdonald, Gabrielle & Rapp, Hans Tore, 2017, A review of carnivorous sponges (Porifera: Cladorhizidae) from the Boreal North Atlantic and Arctic, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 181, pp. 1-69 : 50

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scientific name	Lycopodina novangliae
status	sp. nov.

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LYCOPODINA NOVANGLIAE View in CoL SP. NOV.

( FIG. 38; TABLE 8)

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Type material: Holotype: USNM 1234806 About USNM , R / V ‘Eastward’, st. 36023 [25 May 1979, Lydonia Canyon ( NW Atl.), 40°22.764ʹN, 067°39.33ʹW, 430–613 m].

Diagnosis: Erect Lycopodina composed of stem slightly widening into elongated cylindrical body set with filaments; megascleres styles in the range of 450– 1300 µm; microscleres palmate anisochelae 16–24 µm and forceps spicules 45–54 µm.

Description: Holotype 60 mm tall and up to 5 mm wide erect Lycopodina composed of a solid, rigid stem which broadens slightly into a cylindrical body. Stem approximately 20 mm tall and 2 mm in diameter, very slightly hispid and gradually widens into a slightly grooved body set with numerous short filaments. Fastened to a pebble with a basal plate. Embryos visible in upper part of body. The sponge is damaged and is missing the top part. Colour in ethanol light beige to light brown ( Fig. 38A–C).

Skeleton : Skeleton made up of a hard, strong spicule axis composed of styles making up the filament-bearing body. Filaments each is composed of a central core of styles emerging from the central stem.