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Symplectella rowi (Porifera: Hexactinellida: Lyssacinosida) is a rossellid, not a euplectellid

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 November 2014

Martin Dohrmann
Martin Dohrmann*
Affiliation:
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Palaeontology and Geobiology, Molecular Geo- and Palaeobiology Lab, Richard-Wagner-Str. 10, 80333 Munich, Germany
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Correspondence should be addressed to:M. Dohrmann, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Palaeontology and Geobiology, Molecular Geo- and Palaeobiology Lab, Richard-Wagner-Str. 10, 80333 Munich, Germany email: m.dohrmann@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
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Abstract

The monospecific hexactinellid sponge genus Symplectella endemic to New Zealand waters was originally assigned to family Rossellidae within the order Lyssacinosida (subclass Hexasterophora), although affinities to family Euplectellidae were also noted. Seventy-eight years later, the genus was transferred to Euplectellidae (subfamily Corbitellinae) on rather subjective grounds. Here, I test these two competing taxonomic hypotheses with molecular phylogenetic methods and demonstrate that Symplectella rowi is indeed a rossellid, as was originally suggested. The genus is officially transferred back to Rossellidae (subfamily Rossellinae), which represents another small step towards a more natural classification system of glass sponges.

Keywords

ClassificationEuplectellidaeHexactinellidaintegrative taxonomymolecular phylogeneticsPoriferaRossellidaeSymplectella
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 96 , Issue 2: Proceedings of the 9th World Sponge Conference held in Fremantle Australia in 2013: New Frontiers in Sponge Science , March 2016 , pp. 291 - 295
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2014 

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