Title
First record of Ciocalypta Bowerbank, 1862 (Demospongiae, Suberitida, Halichondriidae) in the Eastern Pacific, with description of a new species from Peru
Date Issued
23 September 2020
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Magnolia Press
Abstract
Ciocalypta includes species with finger-shaped fistules emerging from a basal mass and skeleton composed by a central axis and secondary tracts supporting the ectosome. Although worldwide distributed, no species of this genus has been reported from the Eastern Pacific. In this study, a new Ciocalypta is described from shallow waters of the southern coast of Peru. Ciocalypta magnastyla sp. nov. is greenish white, possesses the typical fistules with oscula located at their tips, and it is characterized by the presence of large styles (370–1000/5.0–32.5 µm) in combination with oxeas of intermediate size (160–500/5.0–12.5 µm). This new species constitutes the first record of the genus for the Peruvian coast as well as for the entire Eastern Pacific.
Start page
429
End page
441
Volume
4853
Issue
3
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Conservación de la Biodiversidad
Zoología, Ornitología, Entomología, ciencias biológicas del comportamiento
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85091903291
PubMed ID
Source
Zootaxa
ISSN of the container
11755326
Sponsor(s)
The present work was supported by Fondo Semilla 2019 N° 015-2019-PRO99 granted by Universidad Científica del Sur. Samples were collected within the framework of the Project “Biogeografía Regional de Zona Reservada San Fernando”, executed by The Environment Management S.A.C., in collaboration with SERNANP (National Service of Natural Protected Areas by the State of Peru). The authors would like to thank Luis Aguirre and Remy Canales for collecting and donating the specimens. E.H. is funded by research grants from CAPES, CNPq, FAPERJ and FAPESP, all from Brazil. The patient collaboration of Julien Cillis while operating the SEM at RBINS was much appreciated.
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