Paratimea camelus, (VAN SOEST, 2017), 2019

Morrow, Christine, Cárdenas, Paco, Boury-Esnault, Nicole, Picton, Bernard, Mccormack, Grace, Soest, Rob Van, Collins, Allen, Redmond, Niamh, Maggs, Christine, Sigwart, Julia & Allcock, Louise A., 2019, Integrating morphological and molecular taxonomy with the revised concept of Stelligeridae (Porifera: Demospongiae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 187, pp. 31-81 : 46

PARATIMEA CAMELUS (VAN SOEST, 2017) COMB. NOV.

Hemiasterella camelus Van Soest, 2017: pp. 174–176 , fig. 109a– e, original description.

Material examined: Holotype RMNH Por. 9924, S u r i n a m e, ‘L u y m e s O. C.P. S.I I ’ G u y a n a S h e l f Expedition, station M97, 7°18.498′N, 54°.10.002′W, depth 130 m, bottom coarse sand, 16 April 1969.

DNA sequences: We sequenced the CO1 Folmer fragment from the holotype (GenBank accession no. MK096539 ) .

Remarks: The CO1 gene tree (Supporting Information, Fig. S4) shows Paratimea camelus clustering closely with Paratimea oxeata , inside Stelligeridae , and the pairwise identity matrix (Supporting Information, Fig.S6) shows 99.85% similarity between the two species. A re-examination of the holotype found a raspailiid surface architecture, typical of many stelligerids. The smaller oxyspherasters reported by Van Soest (2017; fig. 109e) are considered to be contaminants, because we did not find any in our spicule preparations or tissue section. These asters are very different from those found in other Stelligeridae and are likely to be contamination from a tethyid sponge.