WoRMS taxon details
Cinachyrella arabica (Carter, 1869)
AphiaID: 380117
AphiaID: 380117
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Spirophorida (Order) > Tetillidae (Family) > Cinachyrella (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||
| Parent | Cinachyrella Wilson, 1925 | |||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Cinachyra voeltzkowi Lendenfeld, 1897 (genus transfer and junior synonym) Cinachyra voeltzkowi var. typica Bösraug, 1913 (junior synonym) Cinachyrella voeltzkowi (Lendenfeld, 1897) (junior synonym) Cinachyrella voeltzkowii (Lendenfeld, 1897) (junior synonym (and spelling variation)) Tethya arabica Carter, 1869 (genus transfer) Tetilla arabica (Carter, 1869) (genus transfer) | |||||||
| Sources |
original description: Carter, H.J. 1869c. A descriptive account of four subspherous sponges, Arabian and British, with general observations. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (4) 4: 1-28, pls I-II. [details] [full text]
basis of record: 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] from synonym: Bösraug, E. 1913. Die Tetractinelliden. pp. 231-251. In Voeltzkow, A., Reise in Östafrika in den Jahren 1903-1905 mit Mitteln der Herman und Elise geb. Heckmann Wentzel-Stiftung ausgefuhrt von Alfred Voeltzkow. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse. [details] [view taxon] [full text] from synonym: Lendenfeld, R. Von 1897c. Spongien von Sansibar. Abhandlungen herausgegeben von der Senckenbergischen naturforschenden Gesellschaft 21: 93-133, pls 9-10. [details] [view taxon] [full text] from synonym: Barnes D.K.A.; Bell, J.J. (2002) Coastal sponge communities of the West Indian Ocean: taxonomic affinities, richness and diversity. Afr. J. Ecol. 40: 337-349 [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Carter, H.J. 1869a. Description of a Siliceous Sand-Sponge found on the South-east Coast of Arabia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History(4) 3(13): 15-17. [details] [view taxon] [full text] from synonym: Van Soest, R.W.M.; Rützler, K. 2002. Family Tetillidae Sollas, 1888. Pp. 85-98. In: Hooper JNA, Van Soest RWM (eds) Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of sponges. Kluwer, Plenum, New York, pp. i-xlviii, 1-1704. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Richmond, M. (Ed.) (1997). A guide to the seashores of Eastern Africa and the Western Indian Ocean islands. Sida/Department for Research Cooperation, SAREC: Stockholm, Sweden. ISBN 91-630-4594-X. 448 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] | |||||||
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| Environment | marine, | |||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||
| Distribution | type locality: Western Arabian Sea [details] Bawi (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Chumbe Island (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] East African Coral Coast (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Kokotoni (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Malindi (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Oman [details] Quirimba Archipelago (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Tanzania (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Tanzanian Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Zanzibar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] | |||||||
| Specimens |
Holotype (from synonym): BMNH unnumbered, locality Oman [view taxon]
Cotype (from synonym): BMNH 1908.9.24.77a, locality Zanzibar [view taxon] | |||||||
| Link | To Encyclopedia of Life | |||||||
| Note |
Description.— Globular sponges of max. 4-5 cm, with upper surface heavily covered by dark sediment and algae. Scattered porocalices and a few oscules on the upper surface, 5 mm diameter. Spicules not protruding far beyond the surface, so the surface appears ‘short-shaven’. Stalked buds present. Colour.— Orange, buds are yellow. Skeleton.— Spirally radiate (as usual for the genus). Spicules.— Oxeas, protriaenes, anatriaenes, sigmaspires. The megascleres are often broken in the preparations, so lengths are tentative. Oxeas sharply pointed, large size range, but not divisible in size categories, range from 1.9 up to 3.5 mm in length and up to 40 µm in diameter. Protriaenes and more often prodiaenes, range 1.2-2 mm in length and 7-9 µm in diameter, cladomes 40-50 µm, cladi 35-102 × 3-6 µm. Anatriaenes similar in length to protriaenes, up to 2 mm × 8-9 µm, cladomes 35-75 µm, cladi 20-40 × 6-7 µm. A considerable proportion shows very short stunted cladi. Sigmaspires 7-12 µm. Habitat.— On large stones between the tide marks. Remarks.— Microscopic slides of Carter’s type from Oman (BMNH unnumbered labelled Tethya arabica) and a fragment of Lendenfeld’s type of Cinachyra voeltzkowi confirmed that both species are synonymous and match the newly collected ZMA material. [details] | |||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:380117 | |||||||
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Cinachyrella arabica (Carter, 1869). 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=380117 on 2013-05-19 | ||||||||
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