WoRMS taxon details
Spheciospongia globularis (Dendy, 1922)
AphiaID: 170536
AphiaID: 170536
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Hadromerida (Order) > Clionaidae (Family) > Spheciospongia (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Spheciospongia Marshall, 1892 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Spirastrella globularis Dendy, 1922 (genus transfer) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Dendy, A. 1922b. Report on the Sigmatotetraxonida collected by H.M.S.‘Sealark’ in the Indian Ocean. Pp. 1-164, pls 1-18. In: Reports of the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905, Volume 7. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London (2), 18(1). [details] [full text]
basis of record: Lévi, C. 1961a. Résultats scientifiques des Campagnes de la ‘Calypso’.Campagne 1954 dans l’Océan Indien (suite). 2. Les spongiaires de l’Ile Aldabra. Annales de l’Institut océanographique 39(1): 1-32, pls 1-2. [details] additional source: Richmond, M. (Ed.) (1997). A guide to the seashores of Eastern Africa and the Western Indian Ocean islands. Sida/Department for Research Cooperation, SAREC: Stockholm, Sweden. ISBN 91-630-4594-X. 448 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Aliwal Shoal [details] Chagos [details] Indian Ocean [details] Kosi Bay [details] Seychelles (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Tanzania [details] | |||||||||||||
| Link | To Encyclopedia of Life | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Base buried in muddy sand, edges raised into a meandering moat, 15-30 cm wide; globes, 2-3 cm wide, raised on stalks on surface, "pinched" off dispersal; stiff, woody, velvety; deep green with golden brown and maroon patches. Habitat: sandy mudflats lining mangrove channels. Distribution: SE Asia (Richmond, 1997). [details] Holotype: BMNH [details] Type locality: Coin Peros;Indian Ocean [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:170536 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Spheciospongia globularis (Dendy, 1922). 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=170536 on 2013-05-25 | ||||||||||||||
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