Nullarbora Ekins, Erpenbeck, Goudie, and Hooper 2020
- Dataset
- New carnivorous sponges and allied species from the Great Australian Bight
- Rank
- GENUS
- Published in
- Ekins, Merrick, Erpenbeck, Dirk, Goudie, Lisa, Hooper, John N. A. (2020): New carnivorous sponges and allied species from the Great Australian Bight. Zootaxa 4878 (2): 240-266, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4878.2.2
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Porifera
- class
- Demospongiae
- order
- Poecilosclerida
- family
- Cladorhizidae
- genus
- Nullarbora
etymology
Etymology: Nullus L. null, Arbor L. trees. The Nullarbor Plain is also the name of the land surrounding the Great Australian Bight from where the newly discovered species in this manuscript were collected. Species also included: N. acanthoxea (Hestetun, Fourt, Vacelet, Boury-Esnault & Rapp, 2015), N. caillieti (Lundsten, Reiswig & Austin, 2014), N. evae (Lundsten, Reiswig & Austin, 2014), N. fristedtii (Lambe, 1900), N. grimaldii (Topsent, 1909), N. investigator (Ekins, Erpenbeck & Hooper, 2020), N. linearis (Ridley & Dendy, 1887), N. microchela (Lévi, 1964), N. penniformis (Göcke & Janussen, 2013), N. pteron (Reiswig & Lee, 2007), N. rectangularis (Ridley & Dendy, 1886), N. segonzaci (Vacelet, 2006) and N. septemdentalis (Koltun, 1970).
materials_examined
Type species: Nullarbora heptaxia gen nov. sp. nov. Definition: Cladorhizidae with anchorate anisochelae and a pinnate body shape, i. e. filaments at right angle to a straight stem.