Abyssocladia koltuni

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Poecilosclerida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Parazoa Phylum: Porifera Classis: Demospongiae Subclassis: Heteroscleromorpha Ordo: Poecilosclerida

Familia: Cladorhizidae
Genus: Abyssocladia
Species: Abyssocladia koltuni

Name

Abyssocladia koltuni (Ereskovsky & Willenz, 2007)

• Holotype: ZIN-RAS no. 10773, collected by A.V. Ereskovsky on 9 October 1984.
• Type locality: “50°52.3'–50.2'N 145°07.1'–10.2'E, Station 98, south-western slope of Sea of Okhotsk shelf, 500 m depth”.

Combinations

• Esperiopsis koltuni Ereskovsky & Willenz, 2007: 1381 [original combination]
• Abyssocladia koltuni — Hestetun et al., 2016: 337 [subsequent combination]

References

Primary references

• Ereskovsky, A.V. & Willenz, P. 2007. Esperiopsis koltuni sp. nov. (Demospongiae: Poecilosclerida: Esperiopsidae), a carnivorous sponge from deep water of the Sea of Okhotsk (North Pacific). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 87: 1379–1386. DOI: 10.1017/S0025315407058109 Reference page. 
• Hestetun, J.T., Vacelet, J., Boury-Esnault, N., Borchiellini, C., Kelly, M., Ríos, P., Cristobo, J. & Rapp, H.T. 2016. The systematics of carnivorous sponges. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 94(Part A): 327–345. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2015.08.022 Reference page.