WoRMS taxon details
Racodiscula sceptrellifera (Carter, 1881)
AphiaID: 171242
AphiaID: 171242
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > 'Lithistida' (Order) > Theonellidae (Family) > Racodiscula (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Racodiscula Zittel, 1878 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Discodermia sceptrellifera Carter, 1881 (genus transfer) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Carter, H.J. 1881b. Supplementary Report on Specimens dredged up from the Gulf of Manaar, together with others from the Sea in the Vicinity of the Basse Rocks and from Bass’s Straits respectively, presented to the Liverpool Free Museum by Capt. H. Cawne Warren. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (5) 7: 361-385, pl. XVIII. [details] [full text]
basis of record (from synonym): Sollas, W.J. 1888. Report on the Tetractinellida 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 25(63): 1-458, pls I-XLIV, 1 map. [details] [view taxon] [full text] additional source (from synonym): Thomas, P.A. 1981. A second collection of marine Demospongiae from Mahe Island in the Seychelles Bank (Indian Ocean). Annalen. Reeks in 8 - Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika: zoologische wetenschappen, 233. Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika: Tervuren, Belgium. 54 plates pp. [details] [view taxon] [full text] | ||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Variety Racodiscula sceptrellifera var. siliquariae Annandale, 1911 Variety Racodiscula sceptrellifera var. spiroglyphi Annandale, 1911 | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | India [details] Indian Ocean (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mahe Island (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Link | To Encyclopedia of Life | ||||||||||
| Note |
Type locality: Gulf of Manaar [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:171242 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Racodiscula sceptrellifera (Carter, 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=171242 on 2013-06-19 | |||||||||||
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