WoRMS taxon details
Hymedesmia (Hymedesmia) antarctica Boury-Esnault & van Beveren, 1982
AphiaID: 178722
AphiaID: 178722
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Poecilosclerida (Order) > Myxillina (Suborder) > Hymedesmiidae (Family) > Hymedesmia (Genus) > Hymedesmia (Hymedesmia) (Subgenus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Hymedesmia (Hymedesmia) Bowerbank, 1864 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Hymedesmia (Hymedesmia) simillima var. antarctica Hentschel, 1914 (status change) Hymedesmia antarctica Boury-Esnault & van Beveren, 1982 (subgenus assignment) Hymedesmia simillima var. antarctica Hentschel, 1914 (status upgrade and subgenus assignment) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Boury-Esnault, N.; Van Beveren, M. 1982. Les Démosponges du plateau continental de Kerguelen-Heard. Comité national français des recherches antarctiques 52: 1-175. [details] [full text]
from synonym: Hentschel, E. 1914. Monaxone Kieselschwämme und Hornschwämme der Deutschen Südpolar-Expedition 1901-1903. Deutsche Südpolar-Expedition, 1901-03 15(1): 35-141, pls IV-VIII. [details] [view taxon] [full text] from synonym: 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] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||
| Distribution | type locality: Kerguelen Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Antarctic Ocean (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] East Antarctic Wilkes Land [details] Kerguelen [details] Kerguelen Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Kerguelen Islands [details] Malvinas/Falklands [details] South Georgia [details] | ||||||||||
| Specimen | Holotype (from synonym): MNHN D.NBE.1095, locality Kerguelen Exclusive Economic Zone (W Kerguelen, StD36-DC90) [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Link | To Encyclopedia of Life | ||||||||||
| Note |
Synonymy: Hentschel (1914) erected three varieties antarctica for three different Hymedesmia species. These are homonyms of which only one can be the senior homonym, the other two need to be renamed. Boury-Esnault & Van Beveren incorrectly assumed that varieties cannot be upgraded to species, so their action to take authorship for a species Hymedesmia antarctica based on Hymedesmia simillima var. antarctica Hentschel is invalid. Still, they assigned a holotype from Kerguelen, which needs to be compared closely with the Antarctic specimens of Hentschel to establish they are the same species. If so, then authorship would go to Hentschel (not Boury-Esnault & Van Beveren). The other two Hymedesmia varieties named antarctica by Hentschel need to be renamed. [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:178722 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Hymedesmia (Hymedesmia) antarctica Boury-Esnault & van Beveren, 1982. 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=178722 on 2013-05-24 | |||||||||||
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