WoRMS taxon details
Iotrochota baculifera Ridley, 1884
AphiaID: 169378
AphiaID: 169378
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Poecilosclerida (Order) > Myxillina (Suborder) > Iotrochotidae (Family) > Iotrochota (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Iotrochota Ridley, 1884 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Hiattrochota ditrochota de Laubenfels, 1954 (genus transfer) Hiattrochota hiatti de Laubenfels, 1954 (genus transfer and junior synonym) Hiattrochota mystile de Laubenfels, 1954 (genus transfer and junior synonym) Iotrochota baculifera var. flabellata Dendy, 1887 (junior synonym) Iotrochota baculifera var. minor Hentschel, 1911 (junior synonym) Iotrochota baculifera var. tumescens Kirkpatrick, 1900 (junior synonym) Iotrochota hiatti (de Laubenfels, 1954) (junior synonym) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Ridley, S.O. 1884a. Spongiida. Pp. 366-482, pls 39-43; 582-630, pls 53-54. In: Report on the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the Voyage of H.M.S. ‘Alert’, 1881-2. (British Museum (Natural History): London). [details] [full text]
additional source: Topsent, E. 1897a. Spongiaires de la Baie d’Amboine. (Voyage de MM. M. Bedot et C. Pictet dans l’Archipel Malais). Revue suisse de Zoologie 4: 421-487, pls 18-21. [details] [full text] additional source: Thomas, P.A. 1981. A second collection of marine Demospongiae from Mahe Island in the Seychelles Bank (Indian Ocean). Annalen. Reeks in 8 - Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika: zoologische wetenschappen, 233. Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika: Tervuren, Belgium. 54 plates pp. [details] [full text] additional source: Thomas, P.A. 1979. Studies on sponges of the Mozambique channel. I. Sponges of the Inhaca Island. II. Sponges of Mambone and Paradise Islands. Annales du Musée royal de l’Afrique centrale, Sciences zoologiques 227: 1-73, pls I-III. [details] [full text] additional source: Pulitzer-Finali, G. 1993. A collection of marine sponges from East Africa. Annales Museo Civico Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria" 89: 247-350. [details] additional source: Vacelet, J. & P. Vasseur (1971). Eponges des recifs coralliens de Tulear (Madagascar). Thetys, Suppl. 1: 51-126. [details] additional source: Bergquist, P.R. 1965. The Sponges of Micronesia, Part I. The Palau Archipelago. Pacific Science 19(2): 123-204. [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: Laubenfels, M.W. De 1954a. The Sponges of the West-Central Pacific. Oregon State Monographs. Studies in Zoology 7: i-x, 1-306,pls I-XII. [details] [view taxon] [full text] from synonym: Dendy, A. 1887a. The Sponge-fauna of Madras. A Report on a Collectionof Sponges obtained in the Neighbourhood of Madras by EdgarThurston, Esq. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (5) 20(117):153-165, pls IX-XII. [details] [view taxon] [full text] from synonym: Hentschel, E. 1911. Tetraxonida. 2. Teil. Pp. 279-393. In:Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (Eds), Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens.Ergebnisse der Hamburger südwest-australischen Forschungsreise 1905.Volume 3(10). (Fischer: Jena). [details] [view taxon] [full text] from synonym: Kirkpatrick, R. 1900a. On the Sponges of Christmas Island. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1900: 127-141, pls XII-XIII. [details] [view taxon] [full text] misapplication: 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] | ||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Variety Iotrochota baculifera var. flabellata Dendy, 1887 accepted as Iotrochota baculifera Ridley, 1884 Variety Iotrochota baculifera var. minor Hentschel, 1911 accepted as Iotrochota baculifera Ridley, 1884 Variety Iotrochota baculifera var. tumescens Kirkpatrick, 1900 accepted as Iotrochota baculifera Ridley, 1884 | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Australian Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Banda Sea [details] Bonaparte Coast [details] Christmas Island Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Cocos-Keeling/Christmas Island [details] Cosmopolitan (World Oceans) [details] Delagoa [details] East African Coral Coast [details] East Caroline Islands [details] Eastern India [details] Gulf of Guinea (not valid) [details] Gulf of Guinea Central (not valid) [details] Indian Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Inhaca Island [details] Madagascan Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Mahe Island [details] Mambone Islands [details] Mariana Islands [details] Marshall Islands [details] Micronesian Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mombasa [details] Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Pacific Ocean [details] Palau Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Paradise Islands [details] Red Sea [details] Seychelles [details] Seychellois Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Shark Bay [details] Shelly Beach (Mombasa) [details] Shimoni [details] Southern Red Sea [details] Tuléar [details] Um Aaabak [details] West Caroline Islands [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 3 proteins) To Sponge Barcoding Database (Iotrochota baculifera) To Sponge Barcoding Database (Iotrochota baculifera) | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Encrusting sponge, irregularly lobate, 5-10 cm long, 5 cm thick. Surface raised into faintly conulose irregular lumps. Oscules 1-2 mm wide and irregularly spaced. Body tough, brittle and incompressible, emitting copious stringy, magenta-coloured mucus. Colour deep purplish-black. Habitat: inshore fringing reefs. Distribution: Indo-Pacific (Richmond, 1997). [details] Specimen: M.R.A.C. no 556 [details] Specimen: M.R.A.C. no 507 B [details] Type locality: N Australia [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:169378 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Iotrochota baculifera Ridley, 1884. 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=169378 on 2013-05-22 | |||||||||||
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