Plenaster craigi

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Stelligeridae
Genus: Plenaster
Species: Plenaster craigi

Name

Plenaster craigi Lim & Wiklund in Lim et al., 2017: 509

• Holotype: ZRC.POR.0280, collected by T.G. Dahlgren, H. Wiklund, A.G. Glover, M.J. Brasier, K.S. Tan, and S.C. Lim [ABYSSLINE 02 Cruise (OMS)] on 27 February 2015.
• Type locality: “4148 m depth, on polymetallic nodule in box core (BC10) at study site (S04), 12°00.560′N 117°10.692′W”.

References

Primary references

• Lim, S.-C., Wiklund, H., Glover, A.G., Dahlgren, T.G. & Tana, K.-S. 2017. New genus and species of abyssal sponge commonly encrusting polymetallic nodules in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, East Pacific Ocean. Systematics and Biodiversity 15(6): 507–519. DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2017.1358218 Reference page. 

Links

• Plenaster craigi in the World Register of Marine Species