Koltunia burtoni

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Polymastiidae
Genus: Koltunia
Species: Koltunia burtoni

Name

• Koltunia burtoni (Koltun, 1964)

Holotype:ZIN RAS 1060 (specimen in alcohol and slides 6299, 11864), BMNH 1986.7.9.6 (fragment of holotype in alcohol), collected on 29 March 1956 by Ushakov and Belyaev.

Type locality: North of Balleny Islands, Southern Ocean, 64º03′S 161º59.2′E, 3000 m, RV ‘Ob’, station 57.

Combinations

• Proteleia burtoni Koltun, 1964: 28 [original combination]
• Koltunia burtoni — Plotkin, Morrow, Gerasimova & Rapp, 2017: 1353 [subsequent combination]

References

Primary references

• Koltun, V.M. 1964. Sponges of the Antarctic. 1 Tetraxonida and Cornacuspongida. Pp. 6-133, 443-448 in Pavlovskii, E.P., Andriyashev,A.P. & Ushakov, P.V. (eds.). Rezulʹtaty biologicheskikh issledovaniĭ Sovetskoĭ antarkticheskoi ekspeditsii, 1955-1958 [=Biological Reports of the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958)]. Akademya Nauk SSSR: Moscow.
• Plotkin, A., Morrow, C., Gerasimova, E. & Rapp, H.T. 2017. Polymastiidae (Demospongiae: Hadromerida) with ornamented exotyles: a review of morphological affinities and description of a new genus and three new species. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 97(6): 1351–1406. DOI: 10.1017/S0025315416000655 Reference page. 

Links

• Koltunia burtoni in the World Register of Marine Species