Scleroplegma lanterna ( Schmidt, 1879 )

Van, Rob W. M., 2017, Sponges of the Guyana Shelf, Zootaxa 1, pp. 1-225 : 197-198

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.272951

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5698766

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scientific name

Scleroplegma lanterna ( Schmidt, 1879 )
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Scleroplegma lanterna ( Schmidt, 1879) View in CoL

Figures 124 View FIGURE 124 a–e

Auloplegma lanterna Schmidt, 1879 : pl. III fig. 17.

Scleroplegma lanterna View in CoL ; Schmidt 1880: 56, pl. VI fig. 6; Reiswig 2002: 1384, fig. 2.

Material examined. RMNH Por. 9718, Guyana, ‘Luymes’ Guyana Shelf Expedition, station 49, 7.3333°N 57.05°W, depth 120–200 m, Agassiz trawl, sandy mud bottom, 30 August 1970 GoogleMaps .

Description. ( Fig. 124 View FIGURE 124 a) Globular, clathrate mass of tubules, 4.5 cm diameter, individual tubules/channels about 0.5 cm diameter. There is no discernible osculum or attachment disc. The specimen is dried and deciduous, so tissue and dermalia are largely absent. Consistency fragile.

Skeleton. ( Figs 124 View FIGURE 124 b–c) Apart from the dictyonal framework, and a few stray pentactins and hexactins, there are no further spicules and microscleres. The two to three-layered dictyonal framework ( Fig. 124 View FIGURE 124 b) has oval meshes of about 300 µm in diameter formed by beams of 30–70 µm thickness ornamented with bluntly spined ridges. Lychnisc nodes ( Fig. 124 View FIGURE 124 c) with apertures of 25–30 µm diameter.

Spicules. ( Figs. 124 View FIGURE 124 d–e) A few pentactins ( Fig. 124 View FIGURE 124 d), rays 210–240 x 8–9 µm, and a single hexactin ( Fig. 124 View FIGURE 124 e), rays about 150 x 6 µm, were found in the dried skeleton.

Distribution and ecology. Guyana Shelf, 120–200 m, elsewhere found near Cuba and the Virgin Islands, 399– 585 m.

Remarks. my deciduous specimen does not allow to contribute to the variation of this ill-known species. There are a few discrepancies with the type redescribed by Reiswig (2002), such as the absence of a central cavity, but generally it conforms to it as far as the absence of spicules allows to conclude.

RMNH

National Museum of Natural History, Naturalis

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Porifera

Class

Hexactinellida

Order

Lychniscosida

Family

Diapleuridae

Genus

Scleroplegma

Loc

Scleroplegma lanterna ( Schmidt, 1879 )

Van, Rob W. M. 2017
2017
Loc

Scleroplegma lanterna

Reiswig 2002: 1384
Schmidt 1880: 56
1880
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