| Reference |
| Stupenda singularis |
| 2012-10-18 |
| Colville Volcano, Colville Ridge (30° 10' 37'' S, 179° 44' 13'' W) |
| 387-422m |
| RV Tangaroa |
| NIWA 86177 |
| NIWA, New Zealand |
| ethanol |
| Michelle Kelly |
| 3rd of March 2015 |
| Paco Cardenas |
Morphological description (show/hide)
| spherical | | cream with a thick, semitranslucent cortex. | | not visible | | tough, incompressible | | uneven, thick armoured cortex. | | Skeleton strictly radial with bundles of huge oxeas spiralling outwards from a centrum. | | Cortex thick and armoured with brushes of packed oxeas and orthotriaenes, the cladomes of which project beyond the surface. | | Orthotriaenes are huge with typically clubbed clads and a long conical rhabdome, the upper third of which is acanthose. | | Contorted microspined sigmaspires. |
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| This specimen is the holotype. |
Reference (show/hide)
| Kelly, M. & Cárdenas, P. (2016) An unprecedented new genus and family of Tetractinellida (Porifera, Demospongiae) from New Zealand’s Colville Ridge, with a new type of mitochondrial group I intron. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 177, 335-352. |
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