Gastrophanella basaltica

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Spirophorina
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Phylum: Porifera Classis: Demospongiae Subclassis: Heteroscleromorpha Ordo: Tetractinellida Subordo: Spirophorina

Familia: Siphonidiidae
Genus: Gastrophanella
Species: Gastrophanella basaltica

Name

Gastrophanella basaltica Schuster, Pisera, Ekins & Debitus, 2021: 755

• Holotype: MNHN-IP-2019-7 (field number P516/2), collected by Cécile Debitus and Merrick Ekins on 14 April 2013.
• Type locality: “Tahiti Iti peninsula, Tahiti Island, Society Islands, French Polynesia, Station 30, 17°52.657’S, 149°09.330ʹW, 6 m, basaltic Te Pari lava tube on Island fall”.

References

Primary references

• Schuster, A., Pisera, A., Ekins, M. & Debitus, C. 2021. New genus and species of lithistid demosponges from submarine caves in Nuku Hiva (Marquesas Islands) and Tahiti Iti (Society Islands), French Polynesia. The European Zoological Journal 88(1): 749–770. DOI: 10.1080/24750263.2021.1939450 Reference page. 

Links

• Gastrophanella basaltica in the World Register of Marine Species