New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research abstracts
New species of dictyoceratid sponges from New Zealand: Genus Ircinia
(Porifera: Demospongiae: Dictyoceratida)
STEVE DE C. COOK
PATRICIA R. BERGQUIST
Marine Systematics Research Group
School of Biological Sciences
University of Auckland
Private Bag 92 019
Auckland, New Zealand
Abstract This paper is the third in a series revising the
taxonomy of New Zealand dictyoceratid sponges (phylum Porifera, class
Ceractinomorpha, order Dictyoceratida). Only one species of
Ircinia has
previously been described from New Zealand,
Ircinia novaezealandiae
Bergquist, 1961. Six new species of
Ircinia are added to New Zealand's
known fauna. The genus
Ircinia contains in excess of 40 published
species worldwide, although the integrity of some of these is uncertain, often
because of poor diagnoses. The diagnoses of new species reported here provide a
model for the morphological descriptions of future species. The subdivision of
Ircinia is also considered.
Keywords Dictyoceratida; Ircinia; new species; sp.
nov.; New Zealand; Porifera; sponges
M99011
Received 10 March 1999; accepted 28 April 1999
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