Racodiscula asteroides Zittel, 1878 
AphiaID: 171240

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > 'Lithistida' (Order) > Theonellidae (Family) > Racodiscula (Genus)

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Typetaxon of		Racodiscula Zittel, 1878
Parent		Racodiscula Zittel, 1878
Synonymised taxa		Corallistes polydiscus sensu Schmidt, 1870 (genus transfer) Discodermia nucerium (Schmidt, 1879) (genus transfer and junior synonym) Racodiscula nucerium Schmidt, 1879 (junior synonym)
Sources		original description: Zittel, K.A. 1878a. Studien über fossile Spongien. II. Lithistidae. Abhandlungen der Mathematisch-Physikalischen Classe der Königlich-Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 13 (1): 65-154. [details] additional source: Rützler, K., R. W. M. van Soest, and C. Piantoni. 2009. Sponges (Porifera) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 285–313 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] additional source: Van Soest, R.W.M.; Stentoft, N. 1988. Barbados Deep-Water Sponges. In: Hummelinck, P.W. & Van der Steen, L.J. (Eds), Uitgaven van de Natuurwetenschappelijke Studiekring voor Suriname en de Nederlandse Antillen. No. 122. Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao andother Caribbean Islands, 70(215): 1-175. [details] [full text] redescription: Pisera, A.; Lévi, C. 2002. Family Theonellidae Lendenfeld, 1903. Pp. 327-337. In Hooper, J. N. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (ed.) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 1 (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow). [details] from synonym: Schmidt, O. 1870. Grundzüge einer Spongien-Fauna des atlantischen Gebietes. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): iii-iv, 1-88, pls I-VI. [details] [view taxon] [full text] from synonym: Schmidt, O. 1879. Die Spongien des Meerbusen von Mexico (Und des caraibischen Meeres). Abtheilung I. Heft I. Pp. 1-32, pls I-IV. In:Reports on the dredging under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico, by the USCSS ‘Blake’. (Gustav Fischer: Jena). [details] [view taxon] [full text]
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution		Barbados [details] Barbados Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Caribbean Sea [details] Cuba [details] Cuban Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Eastern Caribbean [details] Floridian [details] Greater Antilles (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Gulf of Mexico [details] United States part of the Gulf of Mexico [details]
Specimens		Neotype: ZPAL Pf.15/1, locality Eastern Caribbean (Barbados, off Paynes Bay, dredged) [details] Syntype (from synonym): ZMUB , locality Greater Antilles (Havana) [view taxon]
Links		To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life
Note		The Neotype depth data provided by Pisera & Lévi, 2002 are not entirely correct: they give 108-170 m, whereas it must be 127 m. [details]
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:171240
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2005-07-10 18:05:41Z   created   db_admin 2006-11-25 18:55:41Z   changed   van Soest, Rob
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		Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Racodiscula asteroides Zittel, 1878. 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: 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 at http://www.marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=171240 on 2013-05-23