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Sphaerotylus capitatus (Vosmaer, 1885) 
AphiaID: 170682

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Hadromerida (Order) > Polymastiidae (Family) > Sphaerotylus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Sphaerotylus Topsent, 1898
Synonymised
taxa
  Polymastia capitata Vosmaer, 1885 (genus transfer)
Radiella schoenus Sollas, 1882 (genus transfer and nomen nudum)
Sphaerotylus schoenus (Sollas, 1882) (nomen nudum)
Sources  original description: Vosmaer, G.C.J. 1885a. The Sponges of the ‘Willem Barents’ Expedition 1880 and 1881. Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde 12 (3): 1-47, pls I-V. [details] [full text]

basis of record: Boury-Esnault, N. 2002. Family Polymastiidae Gray, 1867. Pp. 201-219. 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: Clarke, A.; Johnston, N.M. (2003). Antarctic marine benthic diversity. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 41: 47-114 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Uriz, M.J. 1988. Deep-water sponges from the continental shelf and slope off Namibia (Southwest Africa): Classses Hexactinellida and Demospongia. Monografías de Zoología Marina 3: 9-157. [details]

from synonym: Sollas, W.J. 1882a. The sponge-fauna of Norway; a Report on the Rev.A.M. Norman’s Collection of Sponges from the Norwegian Coast. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (5) 9(51): 141-165, pls VI, VII; 426-453, pl. XVII. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

from synonym: 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] [view taxon]

from synonym: Topsent, E. 1898b. Eponges nouvelles des Açores. (Première serie) Mémoires de la Société zoologique de France (11): 225-255. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

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Variety Sphaerotylus capitatus var. vanhoeffeni Hentschel, 1914 accepted as Sphaerotylus vanhoeffeni Hentschel, 1914
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Barents Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Canadian Exclusive Economic Zone [Atlantic part] (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
European waters (ERMS scope) (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Namaqua (probably not valid[details]
Namib (probably not valid[details]
Northern Norway and Finnmark [details]
Norway (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Ross Sea (not valid[details]
Southern Norway (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
West Coast of Norway (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Links To Encyclopedia of Life
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Note  Genus name misspelled as Sphaerostylus by Uriz, 1988: 43. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:170682
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2005-07-14 06:54:12Z  changed  Amelinckx, Simon
2006-08-24 18:36:26Z  checked  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Sphaerotylus capitatus (Vosmaer, 1885). 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=170682 on 2013-05-23
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