WoRMS taxon details
Discodermia sceptrellifera Carter, 1881
AphiaID: 234372
AphiaID: 234372
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > 'Lithistida' (Order) > Theonellidae (Family) > Discodermia (Genus) |
| Status |  unaccepted (genus transfer) | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Accepted name | Racodiscula sceptrellifera (Carter, 1881) | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Discodermia du Bocage, 1869 | |||||||||||||
| 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: 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] [full text] additional source: 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] [full text] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Indian Ocean [details] Mahe Island [details] | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Type locality Gulf of Mannaar. [details] Specimen: Reg. No. 1667 [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:234372 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Discodermia 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=234372 on 2013-05-25 | ||||||||||||||
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