WoRMS taxon details
Ptilocaulis walpersii (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
AphiaID: 165618
AphiaID: 165618
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Halichondrida (Order) > Axinellidae (Family) > Ptilocaulis (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Ptilocaulis Carter, 1883 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Axinella appressa Verrill, 1907 (genus transfer and junior synonym) Axinella ramosa Burton, 1954 (genus transfer and junior synonym) Axinella rudis Verrill, 1907 (genus transfer & junior synonym) Homaxinella rudis (Verrill, 1907) (genus transfer & junior synonym) Pandaros walpersii Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 (genus transfer) Pseudaxinella rosacea (Verrill, 1907) (genus transfer & junior synonym) Ptilocaulis gracilis Carter, 1883 (junior synonym) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Duchassaing De Fonbressin, P.; Michelotti, G. 1864. Spongiaires de la mer Caraïbe. Natuurkundige verhandelingen van de Hollandsche maatschappij der wetenschappen te Haarlem 21(2): 1-124, pls I-XXV. [details] [full text]
basis of record: Alvarez, B.; Van Soest, R.W.M.; Rützler, K. 1998. A Revision of Axinellidae (Porifera: Demospongiae) in the Central West Atlantic Region. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 598: 1-47. [details] [full text] 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] from synonym: Verrill, A.E. 1907. The Bermuda Islands: Part V. An account of the Coral Reefs (Characteristic Life of the Bermuda Coral Reefs). Porifera: Sponges. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences12: 330-344, pls 35 C-D. [details] [view taxon] [full text] from synonym: 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] [view taxon] [full text] from synonym: Alvarez, B.; Hooper, J.N.A. 2002. Family Axinellidae Carter, 1875. Pp. 724-747. 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] [view taxon] from synonym: Carter, H.J. 1883b. Contributions to our Knowledge of the Spongida. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (5) 12 (71): 308-329, pls XI-XIV. [details] [view taxon] [full text] from synonym: Laubenfels, M.W. De 1949b. Sponges of the western Bahamas. American Museum Novitates (1431): 1-25. [details] [view taxon] [full text] from synonym: Laubenfels, M.W. De 1950a. The Porifera of the Bermuda Archipelago. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 27(1):1-154, pls I-II. [details] [view taxon] [full text] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Bahamas Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Bahamian [details] Belize [details] Bermuda (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Bermudian Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Caribbean Sea [details] Cayman Islands [details] Colombia [details] Costa Rica [details] Cuba [details] Eastern Caribbean [details] Greater Antilles [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Hispaniola [details] Jamaica [details] Mexico [details] Panama [details] Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Southern Caribbean [details] Southwestern Caribbean (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] United States Virgin Islands (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Venezuela [details] Virgin Islands [details] Western Caribbean [details] | |||||||||||||
| Specimens |
Lectotype (from synonym): MSNT Por. 56, locality Eastern Caribbean (St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands) [view taxon]
Paralectotype (from synonym): MSNG CE.38.763, locality Eastern Caribbean (St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands) [view taxon] Holotype (from synonym): BMNH 1938.6.30.37, locality Southwestern Caribbean (Mosquito Bank, off Gorda Bay, stat. 31) [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) To Encyclopedia of Life To Marine Species Identification Portal To The Sponge Guide To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:165618 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Ptilocaulis walpersii (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864). 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=165618 on 2013-05-21 | ||||||||||||||
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