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Appendix I. Sponge species reported from Alaskan waters
This list includes the sponges currently known to
occur in the deep waters (>80 m) of Alaska. The list
has been drawn from the published literature (mostly
species descriptions) and from recent collections of
specimens that have been definitively identified by us
through examination of microscopic characters. We
provide a complete list of all species reported from
the area, but only provide detailed species descriptions
in this guide for those species that we collected
PHYLUM PORIFERA
CLASS CALCAREA
Order Baerida
Family Baeriidae
Leuconia alaskensis de Laubenfels, 1953; (Arctic Ocean – Point Barrow, Beaufort Sea)
Leucopsila cf. stylifera (Borojevic, Boury-Esnault and Vacelet, 2000); (Aleutian Islands)
Order Clathrinida
Family Clathrinidae
Clathrina sp. ........................................................................Page 12
Order Leucosolenida
Family Amphoriscidae
Leucilla nuttingi (Urban, 1902); (Aleutian Islands)
Family Grantiidae
Leucandra ananas (Montagu, 1818); (Arctic Ocean – Point Barrow, Beaufort Sea)
Leucandra heathi Urban, 1906; (Aleutian Islands)
Leucandra poculiformis Hozawa, 1918 .....................................................Page 13
Leucandra pyriformis (Lambe, 1893); (Aleutian Islands)
Leucandra taylori Lambe, 1900; (Aleutian Islands)
Leucandra tuba Hozawa, 1918 ...........................................................Page 14
Family Leucosoleniidae
Leucosolenia eleanor Urban, 1905; (Aleutian Islands, Gulf of Alaska)
Family Sycettidae
Sycon compactum Lambe, 1893; (Aleutian Islands)
CLASS HEXACTINELLIDA
Subclass AMPHIDISCOPHORA
Order Amphidiscosida
Family Hyalonematidae
Hyalonema (Cyliconema) apertum apertum Schulze, 1886; (western Aleutian Islands)
Hyalonema (Cyliconema) apertum simplex Koltun, 1967; (Bering Sea)
Hyalonema (Cyliconema) hozawai vicarium Koltun, 1967; (Bering Sea)*
Hyalonema (Leptonema) ovuliferum Schulze, 1899; (southern Gulf of Alaska)
Hyalonema (Cyliconema) tenerum vitiazi Koltun, 1967; (Bering Sea)*
Subclass HEXASTEROPHORA
Order Hexactinosida
Family Farreidae
Farrea kurilensis ssp. nov. Reiswig and Stone, in preparation ..................................Page 16
Farrea occa occa Bowerbank, 1862 ........................................................Page 17
Farrea watasei Okada, 1932; (Bering Sea)*
Farrea sp. Okada, 1932; (Bering Sea)
Farrea sp. nov. Reiswig and Stone, in preparation ..........................................Page 18
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and examined ourselves. For all other species we provide
the zoogeographic ranges, but refer the reader to
the primary literature for those species descriptions.
The taxonomic names are all modern, systematically
arranged to family, and alphabetically arranged by
genus and species within family. (*) indicates that the
species was reported without precise coordinates but
we believe that the collection was made in Alaskan
waters.