Molecular study supports the position of the New Zealand endemic genus Lamellomorpha in the family Vulcanellidae (Porifera, Demospongiae, Tetractinellida), with the description of three new species

  • Michele Kelly Coasts and Oceans National Centre, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, P.O. Box 109–695, Newmarket, Auckland, New Zealand.
  • Paco Cárdenas Pharmacognosy, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, BioMedical Centre, Husargatan 3, Uppsala University, 751 23 Uppsala, Sweden.
  • Nicola Rush Coasts and Oceans National Centre, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, P.O. Box 109–695, Newmarket, Auckland, New Zealand.
  • Carina Sim-Smith Coasts and Oceans National Centre, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, P.O. Box 109–695, Newmarket, Auckland, New Zealand.
  • Diana Macpherson Coasts and Oceans National Centre, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Private Bag 14901, Kilbirnie, Wellington, New Zealand.
  • Mike Page Coasts and Oceans National Centre, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, P.O. Box 893, Nelson, New Zealand.
  • Lori J. Bell Coral Reef Research Foundation, Box 1765, Koror, 96940 Palau.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2019.506
Keywords: new species, Poecillastra, Porifera, secondary loss, Subantarctic New Zealand

Abstract

Due to the possession of huge contort strongyles, and a lack of triaenes in an otherwise ‘astrophorine’ spicule complement, the phylogenetic position of the endemic, monospecific New Zealand sponge genus, Lamellomorpha Bergquist, 1968, has remained enigmatic. The genus was established within Jaspidae de Laubenfels, 1968 (in the abandoned order Epipolasida Sollas, 1888), but it was not until 2002 that the genus was transferred formally to Astrophorina Sollas, 1887, albeit incertae sedis, by Hooper & Maldonado (2002). In this study, we recognise specimens of Lamellomorpha from the Subantarctic New Zealand region and Chatham Rise, considered by Bergquist to be conspecific with the type species, L. strongylata Bergquist, 1968, first described from the Three Kings-Spirits Bay region of Northland, as the new species, L. australis Kelly & Cárdenas sp. nov. These two species of Lamellomorpha have differences in external morphology and colour, skeletal architecture and spicules, natural products, geographical distribution, and depth ranges. Sequencing of the COI Folmer barcode/mini-barcode and of 28S (C1–C2 domains) of these two species suggests phylogenetic affinities of Lamellomorpha with the tetractinellid suborder Astrophorina and the family Vulcanellidae Cárdenas et al., 2011. Two Subantarctic New Zealand species of the vulcanellid genus Poecillastra Sollas, 1888, P. ducitriaena Kelly & Cárdenas sp. nov. and P. macquariensis Kelly & Cárdenas sp. nov., provide further support for the close relationship of Lamellomorpha and Poecillastra.

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2019-03-14
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Kelly, M., Cárdenas, P., Rush, N., Sim-Smith, C., Macpherson, D., Page, M., & Bell, L. J. (2019). Molecular study supports the position of the New Zealand endemic genus Lamellomorpha in the family Vulcanellidae (Porifera, Demospongiae, Tetractinellida), with the description of three new species. European Journal of Taxonomy, (506). https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2019.506
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