Participant card :
Last name : Ekins
First name : Merrick
List of participations in accessible surveys
- KANADEEP 2
- Leg.2 (22/09/2019 - 01/10/2019)
- Tri et identification des éponges (Biologie, Queensland Museum)
Bibliography (4) [+] [-]
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Ekins M., Erpenbeck D., Wörheide G. & Hooper J.N.A. 2016. A new species of lithistid sponge hiding within the Isabella mirabilis species complex (Porifera: Demospongiae: Tetractinellida) from seamounts of the Norfolk Ridge. Zootaxa 4136(3). DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4136.3.2
Abstract [+] [-]A population level study of the lithistid (‘rock’) sponge, Isabella mirabilis, revealed a new species, Isabella tanoa sp. nov., living on five seamounts on the Norfolk Ridge, SW Pacific, and representing the third species to be discovered since the genus was first described in 2005. Comparisons between the three species showed significant differences in morphological characters that corresponded to differences in their respective CO1 barcoding sequences. Conversely, three of the four genotypes of Isabella mirabilis remain unresolved using morphological markers.
Accessible surveys cited (1) [+] [-]
Associated collection codes: IP (Porifera) -
Ekins M., Erpenbeck D., Wörheide G. & Hooper J.N.A. 2016. Staying well connected – Lithistid sponges on seamounts. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 96(2): 437-451. DOI:10.1017/S0025315415000831
Accessible surveys cited (1) [+] [-]
Associated collection codes: IP (Porifera) -
Ekins M., Debitus C., Erpenbeck D. & Hooper J.N. 2018. A new species of the sponge Raspailia (Raspaxilla) (Porifera: Demospongiae: Axinellida: Raspailiidae) from deep seamounts of the Western Pacific. Zootaxa 4410(2): 379. DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4410.2.7
Abstract [+] [-]A new species of Raspailia (Raspaxilla) frondosa sp. nov. is described from the deep seamounts of the Norfolk and New Caledonia Ridges. The morphology of the species resembles that of a frond or a fern, and its unique highly compressed axial skeleton of interlaced spongin fibres without spicules in combination with a radial extra axial skeleton of a perpendicular palisade of spicules, differentiate it from all other species of the subgenus. This species is compared morphologically to all 18 other valid species described in Raspailia (Raspaxilla).
Accessible surveys cited (2) [+] [-]
Associated collection codes: IP (Porifera) -
Ekins M., Baker S. & Hooper J.N. 2023. First records of Hamacantha species from seamounts off eastern Australia (Porifera, Demospongiae, Merliida), with description of four new species. Zootaxa 5318(3): 382-400. DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5318.3.4
Abstract [+] [-]Four new species of encrusting Hamacantha (Vomerula) are described from bathyal depths of seamounts off Queensland and Tasmania in southeast Australia (H. (V.) novacula sp. nov., H. (V.) melliflura sp. nov., H. (V.) ridleyi sp. nov., H. (V.) levii sp. nov.). A previously described species known only from New Caledonia (H. (V.) acerata Lévi, 1993) has also been redescribed. A tabular comparison of all known species of H. (Vomerula) is provided, bringing the number of known species in the subgenus to 26. This is also the first record of the genus Hamacantha from the Australian Exclusive Economic Zone.
Accessible surveys cited (1) [+] [-]
Associated collection codes: IP (Porifera)
