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03F087A0FFCDFF8F248EFD90FB5571EA.text	03F087A0FFCDFF8F248EFD90FB5571EA.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Stelletta ovalae Tanita 1965	<div><p>Stelletta ovalae Tanita 1965</p><p>(Fig. 2)</p><p>Material examined. ZSM 20140112, specimen in ethanol, collected by Robert Stone with a camera array towed from the FV Sea Storm; 8 August 2012, 177 m depth, 4 km NNE of Bishop Point, Unalaska Island, eastern Aleutian Islands, Bering Sea (54°00.499” N, 166°56.136” W). Attached to a large cobble. Bottom water temperature = 4.2 °C.</p><p>Description. Globular, in life and in ethanol creamy white sponge (32 mm x 29 mm x 28 mm) with a strongly hispid surface due to long spicules, protruding up to 13 mm above the surface (Fig. 2A, right). Spicules and spicule mat are light brown in color possibly due to sediment and biofoulants (Fig. 2A). A large patch of the upper surface is without protruding spicules (Fig. 2A), probably lost due to abrasion during collection. Consistency is hard, there are no oscules or surface pores visible. Conical, polyspicular tracts of triaenes and oxeas start with the narrow end in the choanosome, getting broader towards the surface. They protrude through the cortex and reach above the surface with the clads of the triaenes facing out. The cortex appears brown under the microscope and is a thin membrane, 15–40 µm in diameter with oxyasters distributed within the membrane. Spicules consist of dichotriaenes, straight rhabds, 4500–5600 x 180–230 µm, clads 380–525 x 180–225 µm per ray; long oxeas 8000–10,500 x 18–38 µm, large oxyasters with conical, blunt rays 18–24 µm in diameter and small oxyasters, 9–12 µm in diameter. The basal part of the sponge with long, thin anatriaenes among the protruding spicules, rhabds, 2300– 6400 x 40 –70 µm, clads 35–78 x 34 –56 µm.</p><p>Discussion. Tanita 1965 reported only one category of oxyasters, 14–18 µm in diameter but Tanita &amp; Hoshino 1989 report two categories, 20–25 µm and 10 µm in diameter. The description and measurements of Tanita &amp; Hoshino, 1989 fit very well to the specimen we describe here (Table 1). This species was previously known only from the Sea of Japan at a depth of 70 m. This is the first record of the species from Alaskan waters and a range extension of more than 4600 km.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F087A0FFCDFF8F248EFD90FB5571EA	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Lehnert, Helmut;Stone, Robert P.	Lehnert, Helmut, Stone, Robert P. (2014): Aleutian Ancorinidae (Porifera, Astrophorida): Description of three new species from the genera Stelletta and Ancorina. Zootaxa 3826 (2): 341-355, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3826.2.4
03F087A0FFCDFF85248EFA79FB1A7247.text	03F087A0FFCDFF85248EFA79FB1A7247.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Stelletta makushina	<div><p>Stelletta makushina n. sp.</p><p>(Fig. 2)</p><p>Material examined. Holotype, ZSM 20140111, specimen in ethanol, collected by Robert Stone with a camera array towed from the FV Sea Storm; 8 August 2012, 177 m depth, 4 km NNE of Bishop Point, Unalaska Island, eastern Aleutian Islands, Bering Sea (54°00.499” N, 166°56.136” W). Attached to a large cobble. Bottom water temperature = 4.2 °C.</p><p>Description. Irregularly ovoid sponge (45 mm x 38 mm x 32 mm) with a rough surface (Fig. 2A, left). Sponge is white in life but covered with a light brown spicule mat. No oscules visible, possibly due to dense layer of triaene cladomes above the surface. The consistency is hard, only slightly elastic. The megascleres protruding above the sponge surface pass through a pigmented, relatively thick, probably collagenous cortex, 500–700 µm in diameter (Fig. 2B). Long triaenes protrude through this cortex up to 2.5 mm above the surface (Figs. 2B &amp; C). The cladomes of the outermost protruding triaenes (Fig. 2C) end approximately in the same height, forming a dense, rough surface. Spicules are long anatriaenes (Fig. 2D) up to 9800 x 47 –58 µm, clads 90 x 42 –55 µm, ortho- and plagiotriaenes (Fig. 2E) often with reduced, club-shaped clads (Figs. 2F–I) and often occurring as di- and monaenes (Figs. 2H–I), the long clads are recurved (Fig. 2F), wavy (Fig. 2C) or straight and sometimes protruding and merging into protriaenes (Fig. 2J), straight rhabds, 2380–7320 x 180–220 µm, clads up to 480 x 200 µm, relatively short dichotriaenes (Fig. 2K), rhabds 780–930 x 85 –98 µm, straight oxeas 4460–7600 x 30 –160 µm, possibly occurring in a thick and a thin category, and finely acanthose oxyasters (Fig. 2L) 10–14 µm in diameter.</p><p>Discussion. Stelletta makushina n. sp. differs from all other known species of Stelletta (Table 1) and has peculiar ortho- to plagiotriaenes which have a high percentage of reduced, club-shaped clads and very long rhabdomes (up to 7.32 mm). Similar reduced cladomes occur in Stelletta atrophia Hoshino 1981 (Table 1) but, its rhabdomes are much shorter (maximum 2 mm) and S. atrophia lacks anatriaenes, has shorter oxeas and has an additional microsclere category of strongylasters (Table 1). S. calyx Sim &amp; Kim 2003 (Table 1) also has shorter rhabdomes of the orthotriaenes, lacks anatriaenes, has shorter oxeas and two additional categories of strongylasters. S. clarella de Laubenfels 1930 (Table 1) has much shorter megascleres, except for the dichotriaenes which are longer, and a second category of oxeas. S. orthotriaena Koltun, 1966 (Table 1) from the Kuril Islands has long but, still considerably shorter, ortho- and plagiotriaenes, shorter oxeas, and tylasters instead of oxyasters.</p><p>Etymology. Named after the massive Makushin Volcano that prominently guards the northern end of Unalaska Island where the holotype was collected.</p><p>species, author(s) locality ortho/plagiotriaenes anatriaenes dichotriaenes oxeas oxyaster diameter strongylaster other</p><p>diameter</p><p>atrophia, Japan rhabds, 1300– 2000 x none none to 3200 x 30– 40 13 6–7 none Hoshino, 1981 30–100; rays sometimes</p><p>reduced</p><p>calyx, Sim &amp; Japan ortho, rhabds, 1000– none none thick, 2050–3000 x large, 50–95; medium, acanthose, 10– none Kim, 2003 1500 x 50; plagio (rare), 50; thin, 800–1520 x 25–40; small, 12–20; 12.5; “thin“, 7–10</p><p>rhabds, 490–700 x 6–15 10 –15 thin, 30–40</p><p>carolinensis, N-Atlantic none none none 380– 1500 x 7–20 large, 30–70; small, 20 none none Wells, Wells &amp;</p><p>Gray, 1960)</p><p>clarella, de California to rhabds, 2000–3000 x rhabds, 1100– rhabds, 2000–3000 long, 3500 x 50; 9–15 none none Laubenfels, 1930 southern 20–100; chords, 2000 x 9–15; x 20 –100; chords, short, 1400 x 15</p><p>Alaska 120–180 rays, 45–90 120–180</p><p>digitifera, (Lévi, Azores, rhabds, 500–775 x none none 1000–1300 none 8 none 1959) Madeira, 15–20; reduced clads,</p><p>Canary 25–50 x 65 –75,</p><p>Islands sometimes bifurcate</p><p>estrella, de California plagiotriaenes, -diaenes none none 2600–4000x 2.5–12 tylospheraster,10– none Laubenfels, 1930 and monaenes, rhabds, 45–100 11 +++ 4000 x 9–78; rays,</p><p>35–200</p><p>freitasi, Lévi, E-Africa none none rhabds, 600–670 x 1050 – 1600 x large, 30–35; small, none none 1964** (Japan?) 40–48 20–35 dermal, 10 gigantea, Tanita, Japan rhabds, 2000– 2500 x none 2000–2500 x 60 – thick, 2000–6000 x none “chiasterswith none 1965 60–120; rays, 200–250 120, proto, 200; 80–110; thin, 2000– tylote rays”, 14–17</p><p>x 50–75 deutero, 130 5000 x (figure 9e, p. 55,</p><p>15–18 rather suggests</p><p>strongylasters)</p><p>grubii, Schmidt, N-Atlantic, rhabds, up to 1200 x 60; none none 2000–2200 x 60 large, 50–70; small, tylaster, 10 none 1862 * Mediterranea rays up to 150 15–20</p><p>n, Japan</p><p>hispida, N-Atlantic, rhabds, 1000– 1600 x none none 1200–2600 x 16–17 10 –13 none Buccich, 1886) Mediterranea 60–70; rays, 200–350 x 25–70</p><p>n 60</p><p>inermis, Azores rhabds 530–600 x 15; none none 700–760 x 16–20 none 10 rhaphids in Topsent, 1904) rays, 30– 36 x 10–12 trichodragmas</p><p>.... ..continued on the next page species, author(s) locality ortho/plagiotriaenes anatriaenes dichotriaenes oxeas oxyaster diameter strongylaster other</p><p>diameter</p><p>japonica, Japan no measurements for none rhabds, to 1300 x to 1300 x 50 26 12 none Lebwohl, 1914 * rhabds; rays to 150 x 50 50; rays to 130 x</p><p>30</p><p>japonica sensu Japan rhabds, 520 x 45; rays, none rhabds, 500–600 x thick, 1600–3000 x 25– 35 12–17 none Tanita &amp; 260 x 40 58–63; protoclads, 70–90; thin,</p><p>Hoshino, 1989 140 x 55; 1200– 1800 x</p><p>deuteroclads, 140– 12–27</p><p>200 x 45</p><p>kundukensis, China, Korea rhabds, 600 x 80; rays none none 3500 x 25–50 large, 30–70; small, 6–7.5 none, 1996 50 x 25 7.5–12.5 lactea, Carter, Great Britain, none none rhabds, 1700–2500 choanosomal 3000– 16–20 none rhaphidsin ++ Azores x 100–135; proto, 3500 x 35 –120; trichodragmas</p><p>100; deutero, 190 ectosomal 5000–, 28</p><p>7000 x 40 –50</p><p>maxima, Thiele, Japan rhabds to 2000 x 70; none none to 2500 x 50 to 15 to 10 none * rays to 110 x 40 (Thiele, 1898, p. 15,</p><p>described oxyasters</p><p>with rays 25 µm in</p><p>length)</p><p>misakensis, Japan rhabds, 1300– 1800 x none rhabds, 1400–1800 3000–4500 x 60 –80 large, 35–50; small, none none Lebwohl, 1914 60–100; rays, 260–300 x 80 –100, (Tanita, dermal, 5–7 (Tanita,</p><p>1965, p. 55, 1965, p. 56, reported</p><p>reported 3500 x 50 –70 and 5–7)</p><p>100); proto, 120;</p><p>deutero, 200</p><p>morikawai, Japan rhabds, 250–359 x 15; none rhabds, 450–520 x 1300 – 1600 x large, 50–76; small, 12– none none Tanita, 1961 ** rays, 50–8 22 –40; proto, 80; 25–33 15</p><p>deutero, 50</p><p>normani, Sollas, N-Atlantic rhabds, 400 x 63.5; rhabds, 549 x rhabds, 279.4 x thick, 597 x 63.5; 33 10 none</p><p>rays, 76.2; protriaenes 31.6 95.3; rays, 95.3 thin, 584 x 31.8</p><p>rhabds, 159 x 31.6</p><p>orientalis, Thiele, Japan protriaenes rhabds, 4– rhabds, 4000 rhabds, 2500–3700 3000–3700 x 5–10 tylaster,5 none ** 4.5 mm x 20 x 18; clads, x 40 –65; proto, 80; 40–50</p><p>62–120(?) deutero, 110</p><p>orthotriaena, Japan, Kuril orthotriaenes: rhabds, rhabds, 3000 none to 2000 x 30 none tylaster, 10–12 none Koltun, 1966 ** Islands 4000 x 110; rays, 600 x x 20; rays,</p><p>110, plagiotriaenes: 120 x 20</p><p>rhabds to 1000 x 20;</p><p>rays, 100 x 20</p><p>……continued on the next page species, author(s) locality ortho/plagiotriaenes anatriaenes dichotriaenes oxeas oxyaster diameter strongylaster other</p><p>diameter</p><p>ovalae, Tanita, Japan none rhabds, rhabds, to 10,000 x to 10,000 x 70 –90 large, 20–25; small, to none none 1965 **&gt;10,000 x to 120; proto, 100 x (Tanita, 1965, p. 56, 10 (Tanita, 1965, p. 56, 30; rays, 100 80; deutero, 150 x reported thick, 5000 reported only one + 40 x 70 –80 and thin, category, 14–18) unknown length x</p><p>12–16)</p><p>ovalae, ZSM Aleutian none rhabds,2300– rhabds 4500–5600 8000–10,500 x large, 18–24, conical, none none 20140112 Islands 6400 x 40 –70, x 180–230; clads 18–38 blunt rays, small, 9–12 rays, 35– 78 x 380–525 x 180–</p><p>34–56 225 per ray</p><p>pisum, Thiele, Japan none rhabds, rhabds, 1300 x 43; 1200– 1500 x none tylaster,8–12 none 1898&gt;1000; rays, rays, 210 28–30</p><p>25</p><p>purpurea, Ridley, S-hemisphere, rhabds, to 600 x 6; rays rhabds, to plagiotriaenes, 980–1500 x 70 large, 18–20; small, 12– none none 1884 sensu N-Pacific to 300 x 5 1200 x 5; sometimes with 15</p><p>Tanita &amp; rays, 20–25 branched rays</p><p>Hoshino, 1989</p><p>rhaphidiophora, Arctic ”orthanatriaene“, rhabds, rhabds, 2520 to&gt;&gt; 7280 large, 25–40; small, 10– none rhaphidsin Hentschel, 1929 “clade“ (rays?) 70–120&gt;6720; rays, 6090; proto, 490; 13 bundles, 30–</p><p>196–308 deutero, 350–490 35</p><p>solida, Tanita, Japan rhabds, 2000 x 65 –75; none rhabds,2000–2200 1500–3000 x 30–45 large, 30–50; small none none 1963 rays, 80 x 65 –75; proto, 60 spherasters, 15 x 40 –45; deutero, 70</p><p>spinulosa, Sim &amp; Korea rhabds, 75–- 1150 x 24 – none none 1450–2125 x 20–60 large, 40–75; medium, 10–12.5 none Kim, 2003 57 25–35; small, 15–20 splendens, Japan rhabds, 3000 x 100; rhabds,&gt;2000 rhabds, 2200–4500 long thick, to 4000 x none large, 25; small, “three rayed Tanita, 1965 rays, 320 x 80 x 28; rays, 28 x 100–120; proto, 55–60; long thin, to 14–17 anthasters”, 160 x 90; deutero, over 3000 x 17; rays spined, 200 intermediate, 100– 95 x 25 1200 x 25; small,</p><p>350–420 x 10–12</p><p>subtilis, (Sollas, Korea, Japan none rhabds, 1100– rhabds, 1100–1300 1000– 1400 x none tylaster,10–15 none 1886) ** 1300 x 10–14; x 25–40; proto, 80 20–28</p><p>rays, 65 x 40; deutero, 130–</p><p>160</p><p>teres, Lebwohl, Japan none rhabds, 460– rhabds, 360–1950 1300– 2000 x none acanthosetylaster, none 1914 1880 x 5–23; x 16–80; proto, 20–42 7 –16.8 rays, 15–90 x 120; deutero, 300</p><p>28–102</p><p>……continued on the next page species, author(s) locality ortho/plagiotriaenes anatriaenes dichotriaenes oxeas oxyaster diameter strongylaster other</p><p>diameter measurements after Hoshino, 1981</p><p>sensu Tanita &amp; Hoshino, 1989, S. freitasi Lévi, 1964 is originally described from East Africa measurements from Lévi, 1960</p><p>Tanita, 1965, p. 56 reports shorter rhabds, 1700–2500 x 32 –40 µm) measurements from Topsent, 1904</p><p>measurements from de Laubenfels, 1932</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F087A0FFCDFF85248EFA79FB1A7247	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Lehnert, Helmut;Stone, Robert P.	Lehnert, Helmut, Stone, Robert P. (2014): Aleutian Ancorinidae (Porifera, Astrophorida): Description of three new species from the genera Stelletta and Ancorina. Zootaxa 3826 (2): 341-355, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3826.2.4
03F087A0FFC6FF86248EFF30FD537499.text	03F087A0FFC6FF86248EFF30FD537499.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Stelletta anthastra	<div><p>Stelletta anthastra n. sp.</p><p>(Fig. 3)</p><p>Material examined. Holotype, USNM 1231429, in 70% ethanol, fragment of the holotype (ZSM 20140114), in 70% ethanol. Collected by Brian Knoth with a research survey bottom trawl from the FV Ocean Explorer; 17 June 2012, 225 m depth, 19.8 km WNW of Carlisle Island in the Islands of Four Mountains, eastern Aleutian Islands, Bering Sea (52°58.542” N, 170°23.322” W). Attached to a mass of sand and pebbles. Bottom water temperature = 3.9 °C.</p><p>Description. Large, massive, whitish (in life), ovoid sponge, approximately 18.5 cm x 15 cm x 12 cm, hard, only slightly elastic consistency, no oscules visible. The surface is covered by many low elevations, similar to a cauliflower (Figs. 3A &amp; B). Many small openings are visible under low magnification (16 X). We are not sure whether these openings are pores or oscules but they are ungrouped and scattered over the entire surface without any obvious pattern. In sections perpendicular to the surface the radial arrangement of polyspicular tracts, consisting of different triaenes and oxeas is visible with the unaided eye (Figs. 3B–D) as the tracts are 4–5 cm long. These tracts start in the interior with a diameter of 1 mm and fan out at the surface to a diameter of 4–10 mm and support the surface elevations which have the same diameters and height of 2–4 mm. The cortex is 8–10 mm below the surface (Fig. 3D). Spicules are ortho- to plagiotriaenes (Fig. 3E), straight rhabds, 680–910 x 112–115 µm, recurved clads, 480–500 x 90 –100 µm, occasionally with one or two reduced clads; very long, thin anatriaenes (Fig. 3F), up to 19,000 x 30 µm and a short cladome with clads, 180 x 20 µm, oxeas, 9500–11,900 x 50 –120 µm, oxyspherasters (Figs. 3G–H), the distal end looks inflated because of a concentration of spines there, 14–20 µm in diameter, and anthasters (Figs. 3I –J) with spiny ends of rays, 5–8 µm in diameter.</p><p>Discussion. Stelletta anthastra n. sp. differs from all other known species of Stelletta (Table 1) and differs from S. makushina n. sp. in having shorter triaenes, extremely long anatriaenes up to 19 mm in length, much longer oxeas, larger, differently shaped oxyasters and an additional category of anthasters. S. ovalae Tanita 1965 also has very long megascleres but it differs in having dichotriaenes lacking in S. anthastra and in the categories of asters. S. ovalae has two size categories of oxyasters while S. anthastra has one category each of oxyaster and anthaster. S. rhaphidiophora Hentschel 1929 (Table 1) also has very long megascleres but differs in having dichotriaenes, a second category of oxyasters instead of the anthasters present in S. anthastra, and in having bundles of rhaphids. S. splendens Tanita, 1965 is the only other species of Stelletta where “three-rayed” anthasters are described with spiny rays, 95 x 25 µm. These clearly differ in size and dimensions from the anthasters described here. We question whether the three-rayed anthasters described for S. splendens are indeed anthasters.</p><p>Etymology. Named after the beautiful anthasters that occur in this species.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F087A0FFC6FF86248EFF30FD537499	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Lehnert, Helmut;Stone, Robert P.	Lehnert, Helmut, Stone, Robert P. (2014): Aleutian Ancorinidae (Porifera, Astrophorida): Description of three new species from the genera Stelletta and Ancorina. Zootaxa 3826 (2): 341-355, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3826.2.4
03F087A0FFC3FF80248EF8CEFC5C701C.text	03F087A0FFC3FF80248EF8CEFC5C701C.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Ancorina buldira	<div><p>Ancorina buldira n. sp</p><p>(Fig. 4)</p><p>Material examined. Holotype, ZSM 20140113, in three pieces: large and small fragment dried and small fragment in ethanol, collected by Jim Stark with a research survey bottom trawl from the FV Ocean Explorer; 26 July 2012, 234 m depth, 34 km WSW of Buldir Island, western Aleutian Islands, North Pacific Ocean (52°17.16” N, 175°21.48” E). Probably attached to a mass of sand and pebbles. Bottom water temperature = 3.7 °C.</p><p>Description. Large, massive, light brown coloured sponge (in life), dimensions 23 cm x 18 cm x 6.5 cm (Figs. 4A–B). Hard, only slightly elastic consistency. Habitus similar to Geodia starki Lehnert et al., 2013 . In sections perpendicular to the surface, there is a whitish collagenous cortex, 500–800 µm in thickness and up to 15 mm below the surface (Fig. 4B). Polyspicular tracts of megascleres radiate through the cortex, 800–1100 µm in diameter in the cortex and fanning out to form a dense spicule brush (Fig. 4B). Right below the cortex and between the polyspicular tracts oval-shaped canals are visible, 400 x 800 µm in diameter at intervals of approximately 1 mm. A reddish brown to dark brown choanosome, where the arrangement of spicule tracts becomes more irregular, is visible below the oval canals (Fig. 4B). Spicules are long, abundant plagiotriaenes (Fig. 4C), straight rhabds up to 8000 x 180 µm, more rare protriaenes (Fig. 4F), anatriaenes (Fig. 4D), relatively small but thick dichotriaenes (Fig. 4E), straight rhabds, 460–970 x 140–190 µm, cladomes, 225–400 µm per ray. Relatively rare straight oxeas, up to 4520–6460 x 65 –80 µm. Microscleres are finely acanthose oxyasters (Figs. 4G–H), 10 µm in diameter and abundant throughout the sponge, finely acanthose sanidasters (Figs. 4I –J), 13 µm in longest extension, rhabd is 1.5–2.5 µm in diameter, actins have inflated points due to a concentration of spines there and measure 1.8–2.7 x 0.5–0.7 µm. Finely acanthose plesiasters (Figs. 4K–L), 48–72 µm in diameter. Sanidasters and plesiasters are rare; the latter observed just below the cortex.</p><p>Discussion. The World Porifera Database lists 14 valid species of Ancorina and none are known to occur in the North Pacific Ocean. The geographically closest congener is Ancorina radix Marenzeller, 1889 which was originally described from the Mediterranean Sea but subsequently recorded from regions of the Northeast Atlantic as far north as eastern Greenland. A. radix was described to be nut-sized, without dichotriaenes, and with much shorter triaenes, described as “Stumpwinkler” and “Spitzwinkler” (p. 16),which are, according to the figure (pl. III, 6a–b), plagiotriaenes (rhabds, 980–2100 x 14–80 µm and clads, 70–238 x 28–40 µm) and longer oxeas (“Umspitzer”, 1980–4620 x 28–70 µm). It also differs considerably from Ancorina buldira n. sp. based on categories of microscleres, possessing two size categories of oxyasters (large 40–80 µm and small 10–18 µm), and possessing smaller sanidasters (10–80 x 2.5–5 µm) and plesiasters.</p><p>Etymology. Named after Buldir Island, the island near the locality where the holotype was collected.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F087A0FFC3FF80248EF8CEFC5C701C	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Lehnert, Helmut;Stone, Robert P.	Lehnert, Helmut, Stone, Robert P. (2014): Aleutian Ancorinidae (Porifera, Astrophorida): Description of three new species from the genera Stelletta and Ancorina. Zootaxa 3826 (2): 341-355, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3826.2.4
