Microscleroderma lava

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Scleritodermidae
Genus: Microscleroderma
Species: Microscleroderma lava

Name

Microscleroderma lava Schuster, Pisera, Ekins & Debitus, 2021: 759

• Holotype: MNHN-IP-2019-10 (field number P498), collected by Cécile Debitus and Merrick Ekins on 14 April 2013.
• Type locality: “Tahiti Iti peninsula, Tahiti Island, Society Islands, French Polynesia, 17°52.657’S, 149°09.330ʹW, 6 m, Station 30, basaltic lava tube Te Pari 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

• Microscleroderma lava in the World Register of Marine Species