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Coelosphaera (Coelosphaera) koltuni sp. nov. (Porifera: Demospongiae): a new species from South Orkney Islands, Antarctica

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In this work, we describe a new sponge species belonging to the genus Coelosphaera Thomson, 1873. It was collected during an Argentinean Summer Antarctic Research Cruise onboard the Research Vessel “Puerto Deseado” in March 2014, near South Orkney Islands (Antarctica), 60° 53′ S 42° 35′ W, 487-m depth. Coelosphaera (Coelosphaera) koltuni sp. nov. is a globular, fistular and hollow-shaped sponge, with significantly larger megascleres (almost twice the length) than other Antarctic and New Zealand Coelosphaera species. We provide comparative data of all the described Coelosphaera species, especially those from nearby regions.

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Abbreviations

MACN:

Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia”

MACN-IN:

Invertebrates’ collection of MACN

IEO:

Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Spain

INIDEP:

Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Pesquero, Argentina

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank Esteban Gaitán and Hugo Merlo for their valuable effort during sampling onboard de RV “Puerto Deseado”, as well as the rest of the crew, and to Mónica Oppedisano (Mar del Plata University) and Alfredo Quintana (Universidad Oviedo) for their technical assistance during SEM image acquisition. In addition, we would we like to acknowledge the kind assistance of Olga Bozhenova for the information pertaining to Koltun’s specimens in the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg. The authors would like to thank Elena Isla and Christine Morrow for the careful revision of English. This is INIDEP Contribution N°2167.

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This study was partially funded by Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Pesquero, Dirección Nacional del Antártico (Argentina) and PICT 2013-0629 to LS. LS is a reseacher at Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina. JC and PR are researchers at Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Spain.

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  1. Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras (IIMyC-CONICET) and Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Pesquero (INIDEP), Paseo Victoria Ocampo N°1, 7600, Mar del Plata, Argentina

    Laura Schejter

  2. Centro Oceanográfico de Gijón, Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Av. Príncipe de Asturias 70 bis, 33212, Gijón, Asturias, Spain

    Javier Cristobo & Pilar Ríos

  3. Departamento de Zoología y Antropología Física, Universidad de Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain

    Javier Cristobo & Pilar Ríos

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Schejter, L., Cristobo, J. & Ríos, P. Coelosphaera (Coelosphaera) koltuni sp. nov. (Porifera: Demospongiae): a new species from South Orkney Islands, Antarctica. Mar Biodiv 49, 1987–1996 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-019-00959-7

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