WoRMS taxon details
Halichondria bowerbanki Burton, 1930
AphiaID: 132588
AphiaID: 132588
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Halichondrida (Order) > Halichondriidae (Family) > Halichondria (Genus) |
| Status | alternate representation (subgenus assignment) | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Accepted name | Halichondria (Halichondria) bowerbanki Burton, 1930 | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Halichondria Fleming, 1828 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Burton, M. 1930b. Additions to the Sponge Fauna at Plymouth. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 16 (2): 489-507. [details] [full text]
basis of record: Van Soest, R.W.M. 2001. Porifera, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 85-103 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Gosner, K.L. 1978. A field guide to the Atlantic seashore. The Peterson Field Guide Series. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA. 329 p. [details] additional source: Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p. [details] additional source: Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Van Soest, R.W.M. 1993a. Affinities of the Marine Demospongiae Fauna of the Cape Verde Islands and Tropical West Africa. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 159: 205-219. [details] additional source: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Rützler, K., R. W. M. van Soest, and C. Piantoni. 2009. Sponges (Porifera) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 285–313 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] | ||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Variety Halichondria bowerbanki var. stellifera Breton, Girard & Lagardère, 1995 accepted as Halichondria (Halichondria) bowerbanki Burton, 1930 | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Bretagne [details] Cape Verde [details] Caribbean Sea [details] Colombia [details] Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Grevelingen [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] North Atlantic [details] North East Atlantic [details] North West Atlantic [details] Northern Grand Banks - Southern Labrador [details] Oosterschelde [details] United Kingdom [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] West Africa [details] West Mediterranean [details] Wimereux [details] | ||||||||||
| Feedingtype | suspension feeder [details] | ||||||||||
| Host of |
Asterocheres jeanyeatmanae Yeatman, 1970 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Cryptopontius gracilis C. B. Wilson, 1932 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | ||||||||||
| Links | BIOTIC Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) To GenBank (15 nucleotides; 9 proteins) To PESI To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Diet: suspension feeding. Captures minute particles of food on their collars and ingesting them. [details] Habitat: benthic [details] Holotype: BMNH [details] Predators: generally for group, most predators (crabs and other invertebrates), find sponges distasteful either because of a presumably offensive odor or because of their spicules. Predators do include littorinid snails and nudibranchs. [details] Reproduction: Asexual reproduction by buds and gemmules and sexual reproduction (internally) by eggs and sperm; free-swimming cilated larvae (in general, most species are believed to be hermaphroditic but may not produce male and female gametes simultaneously). [details] Type locality: Plymouth [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:132588 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Halichondria bowerbanki Burton, 1930. In: Van Soest, R.W.M; Boury-Esnault, N.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Rützler, K.; de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez de Glasby, B.; Hajdu, E.; Pisera, A.B.; Manconi, R.; Schoenberg, C.; Janussen, D.; Tabachnick, K.R., Klautau, M.; Picton, B.; Kelly, M.; Vacelet, J.; Dohrmann, M.; Cristina Díaz, M. (2013) World Porifera database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=132588 on 2013-05-19 | |||||||||||
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