WoRMS taxon details
Tethya seychellensis (Wright, 1881)
AphiaID: 170991
AphiaID: 170991
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Hadromerida (Order) > Tethyidae (Family) > Tethya (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Tethya Lamarck, 1815 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Alemo seychellensis Wright, 1881 (genus transfer) Donatia seychellensis (Wright, 1881) (genus transfer) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Wright, E.P. (1881). On a new genus and species of a sponge (Alemo seychellensis) with supposed heteromorphic zooids. Trans.Irish Academy 28: 13-20, pl. I (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Van Soest, R.W.M.; Beglinger, E.J. 2008. Tetractinellid and hadromerid sponges from the Sultanate of Oman. Zoölogische Mededelingen Leiden 82 (53): 749-790. [details] [full text] additional source: Lévi, C. 1958. Résultats scientifiques des Campagnes de la ‘Calypso’.Campagne 1951-1952 en Mer Rouge (suite). 11. Spongiaires de Mer Rouge recueillis par la ‘Calypso’ (1951-1952). Annales de l’Institut océanographique 34(3): 3-46. [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] 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: Kirkpatrick, R. 1900a. On the Sponges of Christmas Island. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1900: 127-141, pls XII-XIII. [details] [full text] from synonym: Dendy, A. 1916a. Report on the non-Calcareous Sponges collected by Mr. James Hornell at Okhamandal in Kattiawar in 1905-6. Report to the Government of Baroda on the Marine Zoology of Okhamandal in Kattiawar 2: 93-146, pls I-IV. [details] [view taxon] [full text] from synonym: Dendy, A. 1916c. Report on the Homosclerophora and Astrotetraxonida collected by H.M.S. ‘Sealark’ in the Indian Ocean. Pp. 225-271,pls 44-48. In: Reports of the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905, Volume 6. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London (2), 17(2). [details] [view taxon] [full text] misapplication: Laubenfels, M.W. De 1936a. A Discussion of the Sponge Fauna of the Dry Tortugas in Particular and the West Indies in General, with Material for a Revision of the Families and Orders of the Porifera. Carnegie Institute of Washington (Tortugas Laboratory Paper N° 467) 30: 1-225, pls 1-22. [details] misapplication: Rützler, K., R. W. M. van Soest, and C. Piantoni. 2009. Sponges (Porifera) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 285–313 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Anakao [details] Caribbean Sea (probably not valid) [details] Central and Southern Great Barrier Reef [details] Cocos-Keeling/Christmas Island [details] Colombia (not valid) [details] Cundabilu [details] East African Coral Coast [details] Gulf of Mexico (probably not valid) [details] Indo-Pacific [details] Inhaca Island [details] Jamaica (probably not valid) [details] Landing Bay [details] Mombasa [details] Nyali [details] Oman [details] Panama (not valid) [details] Quirimba Archipelago [details] Red Sea [details] Saudi Arabian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Seychelles (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Seychellois Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Society Islands [details] Southeast Papua New Guinea [details] Southern Red Sea [details] Torres Strait Northern Great Barrier Reef [details] Tuléar [details] Venezuela (not valid) [details] Western Arabian Sea [details] Western India (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (19 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Records of the species from the Caribbean region are suspected to be incorrect. [details] Description: Spherical, spikey, with a deep red exterior (Richmond, 1997). [details] Specimen: Landing bay E62/254: 14 march.E62/347; 348; 349:11 March; E62/2083: 19 March; E62/2190:2198: 21 march [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:170991 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Tethya seychellensis (Wright, 1881). 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=170991 on 2013-05-21 | |||||||||||
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