WoRMS taxon details
Racodiscula asteroides Zittel, 1878
AphiaID: 171240
AphiaID: 171240
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > 'Lithistida' (Order) > Theonellidae (Family) > Racodiscula (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Racodiscula Zittel, 1878 | ||||||||||
| Parent | Racodiscula Zittel, 1878 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Corallistes polydiscus sensu Schmidt, 1870 (genus transfer) Discodermia nucerium (Schmidt, 1879) (genus transfer and junior synonym) Racodiscula nucerium Schmidt, 1879 (junior synonym) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Zittel, K.A. 1878a. Studien über fossile Spongien. II. Lithistidae. Abhandlungen der Mathematisch-Physikalischen Classe der Königlich-Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 13 (1): 65-154. [details] additional source: 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] additional source: Van Soest, R.W.M.; Stentoft, N. 1988. Barbados Deep-Water Sponges. In: Hummelinck, P.W. & Van der Steen, L.J. (Eds), Uitgaven van de Natuurwetenschappelijke Studiekring voor Suriname en de Nederlandse Antillen. No. 122. Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao andother Caribbean Islands, 70(215): 1-175. [details] [full text] redescription: Pisera, A.; Lévi, C. 2002. Family Theonellidae Lendenfeld, 1903. Pp. 327-337. 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] original description (from synonym): Schmidt, O. 1870. Grundzüge einer Spongien-Fauna des atlantischen Gebietes. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): iii-iv, 1-88, pls I-VI. [details] [view taxon] [full text] original description (from synonym): Schmidt, O. 1879. Die Spongien des Meerbusen von Mexico (Und des caraibischen Meeres). Abtheilung I. Heft I. Pp. 1-32, pls I-IV. In:Reports on the dredging under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico, by the USCSS ‘Blake’. (Gustav Fischer: Jena). [details] [view taxon] [full text] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Barbados [details] Barbados Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Caribbean Sea [details] Cuba [details] Cuban Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Eastern Caribbean [details] Floridian [details] Greater Antilles (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Gulf of Mexico [details] United States part of the Gulf of Mexico (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Specimens |
Neotype: ZPAL Pf.15/1, locality Eastern Caribbean (Barbados, off Paynes Bay, dredged) [details]
Syntype (from synonym): ZMUB , locality Greater Antilles (Havana) [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life | ||||||||||
| Note |
The Neotype depth data provided by Pisera & Lévi, 2002 are not entirely correct: they give 108-170 m, whereas it must be 127 m. [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:171240 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Racodiscula asteroides Zittel, 1878. 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=171240 on 2013-06-18 | |||||||||||
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