Isabella mirabilis, Schlacher-Hoenlinger & Pisera & Hooper, 2005
publication ID |
https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5393958 |
persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CE2F2C-7E1F-D942-3BE9-FAA2FDE8FDA1 |
treatment provided by |
Marcus |
scientific name |
Isabella mirabilis |
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sp. nov. |
Isabella mirabilis View in CoL n. sp.
( Figs 3A View FIG ; 12 View FIG ; 26 View FIG )
HOLOTYPE. — Jumeau-West seamount, Norfolk Ridge, 23°40’33”S, 168°00’E, 237-250 m, RV Alis, 21.VI.2001, Warén dredge, coll. T. Schlacher ( MNHN DCL 3903 About MNHN , a fragment of the holotype in QM [G318560s). GoogleMaps
ETYMOLOGY. — Named for the intense, dark purple stain excreted by this species ( mirabilis, Latin for wonderful, strange, causing wonder).
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED (see Table 1). — Antigonia, 180-250 m (QM G318737). — Jumeau-
West, 237-250 m (QM G318751, QM G318765). — Banc 2, 185- 207 m (QM G318803).
DESCRIPTION
Growth form
Massive, shallow cup-shaped, artichoke-like sponge with broad base and an uneven margin, and outer surface bearing numerous, blind, very short, evenly distributed fistules. Dimensions are approximately 4 to 5 cm high and 5 to 7 cm wide with an approximately 3 to 5.5 cm broad base.
Colour
Dark brown in etoh, discolours alcohol deep purple-brown.
Oscules
Not visible.
Texture
Hard, but not stony, brittle, with some compressible parts.
New “lithistids” (Porifera, Demospongiae) from New Caledonia
Surface ornamentation
Uneven, fistulose.
Ectosomal skeleton
Contains a layer of very abundant smooth dichotriaenes perpendicular to the surface and abundant microscleres. Microscleres at the surface are numerous forming a crust and consist of microspinose, often centrotylote and curved, microxeas and asymmetrical euaster-like streptasters.
Choanosomal skeleton
Composed of regular and slightly curved dicranoclones. These desmas form an extremely distinct root/vine-like mesh. Choanosomal microscleres are typically microspinose spirasters with long, more or less pointed rays. There are also thick bundles of long oxeas.
Megascleres
Dicranoclone desmas are regular, slightly curved, tripodal slender dicranoclone desmas which are
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completely smooth or bear numerous low, indistinct, smooth tubercles. Often the centrally locat- ed tubercle is higher than the others. Adjacent desmas produce a complex skeletal network via entanglement of their extremities, which is aided by the root/vine-like lateral extension of the desmas: 520-610 µm/25-45µm.
Dichotriaenes smooth, often with tips of the cladome bent in an angle and lower third of the rhabdome with several grooves: 523-784 µm long × 297-479 µm diameter (cladome).
Oxeas very long, but all broken, some shorter unbroken ones measure 468 × 7-8 µm, but it is unsure if they are native or foreign.
Microscleres
Microacanthoxeas (centrotylote): 65.9-107 × 3.86-5.6 µm.
Streptaster (spiraster) very variable, with slender arms: 17.5-25.9 × 15-20.8 µm.
Streptaster (resembling euaster, but asymmetrical with long, thick rays), diameter: 8.2-15.0 µm.
REMARKS
This species has a very distinctive gross morphology, very characteristic dicranoclones and euaster-like streptaster microscleres. No similar combination of microscleres is known so far in any described lithistids. All these characteristics suggest that the new species belong to a new genus within the family Corallistidae .
MNHN |
Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle |
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