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Issue: Vol. 4526 No. 1: 28 Nov. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-11-28
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4526.1.4
Page range: 56–70
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A new genus of calcareous sponge discovered in the Caribbean Sea: Bidderia gen. nov. (Porifera, Calcarea, Calcinea)

Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Biologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Av. Carlos Chagas Filho, 373, CCS, Bloco A, sala A0-100, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil, 21941-902
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Biologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Av. Carlos Chagas Filho, 373, CCS, Bloco A, sala A0-100, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil, 21941-902 Universidad Científica del Sur, Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias y Biológicas, Carrera de Biología Marina, Antigua Panamericana Sur Km. 19, Villa El Salvador, Lima, Perú
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Biologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Av. Carlos Chagas Filho, 373, CCS, Bloco A, sala A0-100, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil, 21941-902
Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d'Ecologie marine et continentale IMBE, UMR CNRS 7263, IRD 237, Aix Marseille Université, Avignon Université, Station Marine d'Endoume, Rue de la Batterie des Lions 13007 Marseille, France
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Biologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Av. Carlos Chagas Filho, 373, CCS, Bloco A, sala A0-100, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil, 21941-902
Porifera C-LSU Integrative taxonomy ITS Leucascidae Lesser Antilles Molecular systematics

Abstract

Calcareous sponges from the Lesser Antilles were recently inventoried and several specimens morphologically resembling species of the genus Ascoleucetta were collected. Morphological and molecular (C-LSU and ITS) analyses indicated that these specimens from the Lesser Antilles constituted a new genus. They lack the conspicuous and very characteristic ornamentation of the inhalant apertures found in two out of three species of Ascoleucetta, including the type species A. compressa. In the molecular analyses, the specimens clustered as an independent lineage, distant from the clade of A. compressa. Based on these results, we decided to erect a new genus, Bidderia gen. nov., whose type species is Bidderia bicolora gen. nov. sp. nov. Considering this new discovery, we are proposing to transfer the species A. amitsba to the genus Bidderia gen. nov. and to rediagnose Ascoleucetta.

 

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