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Porifera name details

Stelletta horrens var. subcylindrica Burton, 1926

169945  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:169945)

 unaccepted (junior synonym)
Variety
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Burton, M. (1926). Descriptions of South African sponges collected in the South African Marine Survey. Part I. Myxospongida and Astrotetraxonida. <em>Fisheries Bulletin. Fisheries and Marine Biological Survey Division, Union of South Africa.</em> Report 4, Special Report 9 (6): 1-29.
page(s): 4 [details]  OpenAccess publication 
Holotype  BMNH 1924.5.1.15, geounit Natal  
Holotype BMNH 1924.5.1.15, geounit Natal [details]
de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez, B.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Cárdenas, P.; Díaz, M.-C.; Dohrmann, M.; Downey, R.; Goodwin, C.; Hajdu, E.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Kelly, M.; Klautau, M.; Lim, S.C.; Manconi, R.; Morrow, C.; Pinheiro, U.; Pisera, A.B.; Ríos, P.; Rützler, K.; Schönberg, C.; Turner, T.; Vacelet, J.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Xavier, J. (2024). World Porifera Database. Stelletta horrens var. subcylindrica Burton, 1926. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=169945 on 2024-04-23
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2005-07-10 18:05:41Z
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2006-11-17 19:35:29Z
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2008-06-23 18:46:04Z
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2024-01-24 09:31:01Z
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original description Burton, M. (1926). Descriptions of South African sponges collected in the South African Marine Survey. Part I. Myxospongida and Astrotetraxonida. <em>Fisheries Bulletin. Fisheries and Marine Biological Survey Division, Union of South Africa.</em> Report 4, Special Report 9 (6): 1-29.
page(s): 4 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

basis of record Van Soest, R.W.M. (2024). Correcting sponge names: nomenclatural update of lower taxa level Porifera. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5398(1): 1-122., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5398.1.1
page(s): 61 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Holotype BMNH 1924.5.1.15, geounit Natal [details]
From editor or global species database
Synonymy The variety was described by Burton from the Natal coast off Sandy Point, South Africa, 29.7367°S 31.3458°E, depth 91 m (holotype BMNH 1924.5.15 with slide BMNH 1924.5.1.79). It differs from the typical variety, S. horrens Kirkpatrick (1902: 229, pl. II fig. 6, pl. III fig. 6, from close-by Durnford Point, Natal coast, South Africa, 28.9167°S 31.925°E, depth 165 m, holotype BMNH 1902.2.13.9), in size and shape, but all skeletal and other features are the same in both. Because the present variety was much smaller than the typical variety, Burton himself suggested the difference in shape (thickly cylindrical with apical depression in the present variety vs. a wide cup in the typical variety) could be age-related and they could be specimens of the same species. Van Soest (2024: 61) proposed to merge the varieties into a single species to be named Stelletta horrens Kirkpatrick, 1902. [details]


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