WoRMS taxon details
Polymastia littoralis Stephens, 1915
AphiaID: 170644
AphiaID: 170644
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Hadromerida (Order) > Polymastiidae (Family) > Polymastia (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Polymastia Bowerbank, 1864 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Stephens, J. 1915b. Atlantic Sponges collected by the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 50(2): 423-467, pls XXXVIII-XL. [details] [full text]
basis of record: Samaai, T.; Gibbons, M.J. 2005. Demospongiae taxonomy and biodiversity of the Benguela region on the west coast of South Africa. African Natural History, 1: 1-96 [details] basis of record: Boury-Esnault, N. 1987. The Polymastia species (Demosponges, Hadromerida) of the Atlantic Area. Pp. 29-66. In: Vacelet, J. & Boury-Esnault, N. (Eds), Taxonomy of Porifera from the N.E. Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea. NATO ASI Series G 13. (Springer-Verlag: Berlin, Heidelberg): 1-332. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: 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] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Namaqua [details] Saldanha Bay [details] South Africa (country) [details] South African Exclusive Economic Zone [details] | ||||||||||
| Link | To Encyclopedia of Life | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Additional Material: Material SAM-H4890 (fragment BMNH.1997.5.12.40) (Ts 196), Coral Gardens, Oudekraal, Cape Town (33°59’S, 17°23’E), depth 12 m, collected by P. Coetzee, 25 April 1996. BMNH 1997.5.12.36 (fragment Ts 179), Oudekraal, Cape Town (33°59’S, 18°22’E), depth 15 m, collected by P. Coetzee, 22 April 1996. Ts 307, Jacobs Bay, near Saldanha Bay (32°31’S, 17°30’E), depth 3–5 m collected by T. Samaai, 15 December 1997. BMNH 1997.5.12.49 (fragment Ts 473), Coral Gardens, Oudekraal, Cape Town (33°59’S, 17°23’E), depth12–15 m, collected by M.J. Gibbons and Z. Toeffie, 15 October 1996. BMNH 1997.5.12.99 (fragment Ts 261), Justin’s Cave, Oudekraal, Cape Town (33°58’S, 18°20’E), depth 9–10 m, collected by M.J. Gibbons, 7 November 1996. Ts 313, Elands Bay (32°20’S, 18°20’E), depth 2–4 m, collected by T. Samaai, 4 November 1997. [details] Type locality: South Africa [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:170644 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Polymastia littoralis Stephens, 1915. 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=170644 on 2013-06-18 | |||||||||||
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