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Desmacella annexa Schmidt, 1870 
AphiaID: 133206

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Poecilosclerida (Order) > Mycalina (Suborder) > Desmacellidae (Family) > Desmacella (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Sigmatoxella de Laubenfels, 1936
Parent Desmacella Schmidt, 1870
Synonymised
taxa
  Biemma annexa (Schmidt, 1870) (reverted genus transfer)
Biemma chevreuxi Topsent, 1890 (genus transfer & junior synonym)
Biemna annexa (Schmidt, 1870) (reverted genus transfer)
Desmacella vagabunda var. annexa Schmidt, 1870 (status change)
Sigmatoxella annexa (Schmidt, 1870) (reverted genus transfer)
Tylodesma annexa (Schmidt, 1870) (genus transfer)
Sources  original description: Schmidt, O. 1870. Grundzüge einer Spongien-Fauna des atlantischen Gebietes. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): iii-iv, 1-88, pls I-VI. [details] [full text]

additional source: Van Soest, R.W.M.; Stentoft, N. 1988. Barbados Deep-Water Sponges. In: Hummelinck, P.W. & Van der Steen, L.J. (Eds), Uitgaven van de Natuurwetenschappelijke Studiekring voor Suriname en de Nederlandse Antillen. No. 122. Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao andother Caribbean Islands, 70(215): 1-175. [details] [full text]

additional source: Howson, C.M.; Picton, B.E. (Ed.) (1997). The species directory of the marine fauna and flora of the British Isles and surrounding seas. Ulster Museum Publication, 276. The Ulster Museum: Belfast, UK. ISBN 0-948150-06-8. vi, 508 (+ cd-rom) pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: 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: Burton, M. 1954. Sponges. Pp. 215-239, pl. 9. In: The 'Rosaura' Expedition. Part 5. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology, 2(6). [details] [full text]

from synonym: Bibiloni, M.A. 1981. Estudio sistemático de orden Poecilosclerida(Demospongia) de la Costa Brava (Gerona). Boletín del Instituto españolde oceanografía 6(4): 103-154. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

from synonym: Boury-Esnault, N.; Pansini, M.; Uriz, M.J. 1994b. Spongiaires bathyaux de la mer d’Alboran et du golfe ibéro-marocain. Mémoires du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle 160: 1-174. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Lévi, C.; Vacelet, J. 1958. Éponges récoltées dans l’Atlantique oriental par le ‘Président Théodore-Tissier’ (1955-1956). Revue des Travaux de l’Institut des Pêches maritimes 22 (2): 225-246. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

from synonym: Maldonado, M. (1992). Demosponges of the red coral bottoms from the Alboran Sea. J. Nat. Hist. 26: 1131-1161 (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Burton, M. 1928a. Report on some Deep-Sea Sponges from the Indian Museum collected by R.I.M.S. ‘Investigator’. Part II. Tetraxonida (concluded) and Euceratosa. Records of the Indian Museum 30 (1): 109-138, pls I-II. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

from synonym: Lundbeck, W. (1902). Porifera. (Part I.) Homorrhaphidae and Heterorrhaphidae. Pp. 1-108, pls I-XIX, 1 map. In: The Danish Ingolf-Expedition. 6(1). (Bianco Luno: Copenhagen). [details] [view taxon] [full text]

from synonym: Hentschel, E. 1929. Die Kiesel- und Hornschwämme des Nördlichen Eismeers. Pp. 857-1042, pls XII-XIV. In: Römer, F., Schaudinn, F., Brauer, A. & Arndt, W. (Eds), Fauna Arctica. Eine Zusammenstellung der arktischen Tierformen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des Spitzbergen-Gebietes auf Grund der Ergebnisse der Deutschen Expedition in das Nördliche Eismeer im Jahre 1898. 5 (4) (G.Fischer, Jena). [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Lévi, C. 1956a. Étude des Halisarca de Roscoff. Embryologie et systématiquedes démosponges. Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale 93(1): 1-181. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Stephens, J. 1921 [1920]. Sponges of the Coasts of Ireland. II. The Tetraxonida (concluded). Scientific Investigations of the Fisheries Branch. Department of Agriculture for Ireland 1920(2): 1-75, pls I-VI. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

from synonym: Schmidt, O. 1875. Spongien. Pp. 115-120, pl. I. In: Die Expedition zur physikalisch-chemischen und biologischen Untersuchung der Nordsee im Sommer 1872. Jahresbericht der Commission zur Wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung der Deutschen Meere in Kiel, Volume 2-3. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

from synonym: Topsent, E. 1890b. Notice préliminaire sur les spongiaires recueillis durant les campagnes de l'Hirondelle. Bulletin de la Société zoologique de France (15): 26-32, 65-71. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Adriatic Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Aegean Sea [details]
Alboran Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Arctic Ocean (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Azores (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Azores Canaries Madeira [details]
Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Barbados [details]
Barbados Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Cape Verde [details]
Caribbean Sea [details]
East Greenland Shelf (probably not valid[details]
Eastern Caribbean [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Floridian [details]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Icelandic Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
Laccadive islands (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Mediterranean Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Monaco [details]
North Atlantic [details]
North Coast of Spain [details]
North East Atlantic (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Norwegian Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
South and West Iceland (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [Mediterranean part] (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United States part of the Gulf of Mexico [details]
West Africa [details]
West Coast of France [details]
West Mediterranean [details]
Western Mediterranean (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Specimen  Holotype: BMNH 1870.5.3.29, locality Florida [details]
Links Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
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To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection
To ITIS
Notes  This is the type species of Sigmatoxella de Laubenfels, 1936, which is a junior synonym of Desmacella. [details]

Schmidt's type slide in BMNH contains tylostyles, several size categories of sigmas and the characteristic wavy asymmetrical tox-like raphides.  [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:133206
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van Soest, Rob
2005-09-09 16:45:37Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2006-01-30 09:26:25Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
2006-12-14 20:51:26Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Desmacella annexa Schmidt, 1870. 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=133206 on 2013-05-19
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