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Homaxinella balfourensis (Ridley & Dendy, 1886) 
AphiaID: 170758

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Hadromerida (Order) > Suberitidae (Family) > Homaxinella (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Homaxinella Topsent, 1916
Synonymised
taxa
  Axinella balfourensis Ridley & Dendy, 1886 (genus transfer)
Axinella supratumescens Topsent, 1907 (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Homaxinella supratumescens (Topsent, 1907) (junior synonym)
Sources  original description: Ridley, S.O.; Dendy, A. 1886. Preliminary Report on the Monaxonida collected by H.M.S. ‘Challenger’. Annals and Magazine of Natural History(5) 18: 325-351, 470-493. [details] [full text]

original description: Ridley, S.O.; Dendy, A. 1887. Report on the Monaxonida collected by H.M.S. ‘Challenger’ during the years 1873-1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. ‘Challenger’, 1873-1876.Zoology 20(59): i-lxviii, 1-275, pls I-LI, 1 map. [details] [full text]

additional source: Koltun, V.M. 1964b. Sponges of the Antarctic. 1 Tetraxonida and Cornacuspongida. Pp. 6-133, 443-448. In: Pavlovskii, E.P., Andriyashev,A.P. & Ushakov, P.V. (Eds), Biological Reports of the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958), Akademya Nauk SSSR [English translation,1966, Israel Program for Scientific Translation] [details]

additional source (from synonym): Burton, M. 1929a. Porifera. Part II. Antarctic sponges. British Antarctic (‘Terra Nova’) Expedition, 1910. Natural History Report, London, British Museum (Natural History). Zoology 6(4): 393-458,pls I-V. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

additional source (from synonym): Burton, M. 1932b. Sponges. Discovery Reports 6: 237-392, pls 48-57. [details] [view taxon]

original description (from synonym): Topsent, E. 1907a. Poecilosclérides nouvelles recueillies par le Français dans l’Antarctique. Bulletin du Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Paris 13: 69-76. [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]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Antarctic 200NM zone beyond the coastline (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Antarctic Ocean (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Antarctic Peninsula [details]
East Antarctic Wilkes Land [details]
Kerguelen [details]
Kerguelen Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Kerguelen Islands [details]
Ross Sea [details]
South Georgia [details]
Specimens  Unknown type (from synonym): MNHN DT 1660 [view taxon]
Unknown type (from synonym): MNHN DT 1660, locality Booth Island [view taxon]
Unknown type (from synonym): MNHN DT 3726, locality Booth Island [view taxon]
Unknown type (from synonym): MNHN DT 3727, locality Booth Island [view taxon]
Unknown type (from synonym): MNHN DT 3729, locality Booth Island [view taxon]
Unknown type (from synonym): MNHN DT 3725, locality Flandres Bay [view taxon]
Unknown type (from synonym): MNHN DT 3728, locality Wiencke Island [view taxon]
Unknown type (from synonym): MNHN DT 3730, locality Wiencke Island [view taxon]
Lectotype (from synonym): MNHN DT 3731, locality Wiencke Island [view taxon]
Links To Antarctic Invertebrates
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:170758
Taxonomic
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2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2005-08-01 10:45:39Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2007-07-28 13:15:49Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Homaxinella balfourensis (Ridley & Dendy, 1886). 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=170758 on 2013-06-20
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