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Deep-sea reef building hexactinellids (Euretidae) from the Bering Sea abyssal zone

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Hexactinellid sponges play an important role as ecosystem engineers through the formation of sponge reefs. Aggregations of sponge skeletons provide the substrata for rich benthic communities including dense populations of suspension feeders. Previously expressive sponge reefs were described from the continental shelf of the northeastern Pacific. Here we describe a new representative participating in the sponge reef construction in the abyssal zone of the Bering Sea, Periphragella spiridonovi sp. nov. and other representatives of hexactinellids from the family Euretidae with rigid skeleton: Periphragella sp., aff. Chonelasma sp. and Pinulasma fistulosum.

Source: Zootaxa

DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5621.3.5

Authors: KONSTANTIN R. TABACHNICK, LARISA L. MENSHENINA

Institutions: Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Oceanology. PP Shirshov Russian Academy of Sciences, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Language: English

Topic: Marine Sponges and Natural Products

Subfield: Biotechnology

Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Domain: Life Sciences

SDG: Life below water

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W4409451843

FWCI: 0.376

Cites: 10

Cited by: 1

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