Ekins Merrick, Debitus CÉcile, Erpenbeck Dirk, Hooper John N A
Queensland Museum, PO Box 3300, South Brisbane 4101, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, 4072 Australia.
Zootaxa. 2018 Apr 17;4410(2):379-386. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4410.2.7.
A new species of Raspailia (Raspaxilla) frondosa sp. nov. is described from the deep seamounts of the Norfolk and New Caledonia Ridges. The morphology of the species resembles that of a frond or a fern, and its unique highly compressed axial skeleton of interlaced spongin fibres without spicules in combination with a radial extra axial skeleton of a perpendicular palisade of spicules, differentiate it from all other species of the subgenus. This species is compared morphologically to all 18 other valid species described in Raspailia (Raspaxilla).
一种新的叶状拉斯帕海绵（Raspailia (Raspaxilla) frondosa）新物种从诺福克和新喀里多尼亚海岭的深海山被描述。该物种的形态类似于叶状体或蕨类植物，其独特的高度压缩的由交错的海绵硬蛋白纤维构成的轴向骨架（无骨针），与由垂直排列的骨针构成的径向轴外骨架相结合，使其与该亚属的所有其他物种区分开来。将该物种与拉斯帕海绵（Raspailia (Raspaxilla)）中描述的其他18个有效物种进行了形态学比较。
