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Spirastrella cunctatrix Schmidt, 1868 
AphiaID: 134235

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Hadromerida (Order) > Spirastrellidae (Family) > Spirastrella (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Spirastrella Schmidt, 1868
Parent Spirastrella Schmidt, 1868
Synonymised
taxa
  Hymeniacidon angulata Bowerbank, 1872 (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Spirastrella angulata (Bowerbank, 1872) (junior synonym)
Spirastrella cuncatrix (misspelling)
Sources  original description: Schmidt, O. 1868. Die Spongien der Küste von Algier. Mit Nachträgen zu den Spongien des Adriatischen Meeres (Drittes Supplement). (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): i-iv, 1-44, pls I-V. [details] [full text]

basis of record: Rützler, K. 2002. Family Spirastrellidae Ridley & Dendy, 1886. Pp. 220-223. In Hooper, J. N. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (ed.) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 1 (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow). [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: Vacelet, J. & P. Vasseur (1971). Eponges des recifs coralliens de Tulear (Madagascar). Thetys, Suppl. 1: 51-126. [details]

additional source: Lévi, C. 1957a. Spongiaires des côtes d'Israel. Bulletin of the Research Council of Israel 6 B(3-4): 201-212. [details]

additional source: Lévi, C. 1959a. Résultats scientifiques des Campagnes de la ‘Calypso’. Campagne de la ‘Calypso’ dans le Golfe de Guinée et aux îles Principe, São Tomé et Annobon. 5. Spongiaires. Annales de l’Institut océanographique 37 (4): 115-141, pls 5-6. [details]

additional source: Lévi, C. 1965a. Spongiaires récoltés par l’expédition israélienne dans le sud de la Mer Rouge en 1962. Pp. 3-27. In: Israel South Red Sea Expedition,1962, Report 13. Bulletin. Sea Fisheries Research Station, Israel, (39). [details] [full text]

from synonym: Mustapha, K.B.,Zarrouk, S., Souissi, A., ; El Abed, A. 2003.Diversite Des Desmosponges Tunisiennes.Bull.Inst. Natn. Scien. Tech. Mer de Salammbô. Vol. 30 [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Bowerbank, J.S. 1872d. Contributions to a General History of the Spongiadae. Part III. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London1872: 626-635, pls XLVI-XLIX. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

from synonym: Burton, M. 1956. The sponges of West Africa. Atlantide Report (Scientific Results of the Danish Expedition to the Coasts of Tropical West Africa, 1945-1946, Copenhagen) 4: 111-147. [details] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English encrusting orange sponge  [details]
French éponge encroûtante orange  [details]
German orangefarbener Strahlenschwamm  [details]
Italian spirastrella  [details]
Italian spugna rossa  [details]
Spanish esponja incrustante naranja  [details]
Direct child
taxa

[show all]
 
Variety Spirastrella cunctatrix var. porcata Carter, 1886 accepted as Spheciospongia papillosa (Ridley & Dendy, 1886)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Aegean Sea [details]
Algerian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Azores Canaries Madeira (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Bermuda (probably not valid[details]
East Atlantic Coast [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Gulf of Guinea Islands [details]
Indo-Pacific (probably not valid[details]
Israeli Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Kerkennah Islands [details]
Levantine Sea [details]
Madeira (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Madeiran Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Mediterranean Sea [details]
Nocra (probably not valid[details]
Red Sea [details]
Tropical Atlantic (not valid[details]
Tunisian Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Tunisian Plateau/Gulf of Sidra [details]
Um Aaabak (probably not valid[details]
West Australia (probably not valid[details]
Western Mediterranean [details]
Specimens  Holotype: MNHN DT 735, locality Coast of Algeria [details]
Holotype: MNHN DT 735, locality Coast of Algeria [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (24 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection
Note  Caribbean records under this name usually concern Spirastrella hartmani or Spirastrella mollis. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:134235
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van Soest, Rob
2006-09-24 09:30:04Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Spirastrella cunctatrix Schmidt, 1868. 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=134235 on 2013-05-23
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