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Porifera name detailsSpongilla crateriformis var. insularis sensu Penney & Racek, 1968
195665 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:195665)
unaccepted (unavailable name)
Variety
recent only
Penney, J.T.; Racek, A.A. (1968). Comprehensive revision of a worldwide collection of freshwater sponges (Porifera: Spongillidae). <em>Bulletin of the United States National Museum.</em> 272: 1-184.
page(s): 6 [details] 
Nomenclature The variety appears to be a nomen nudum because Penney & Racek (1968: 6) cite a name assigned to Annandale (1911a: 85,...
Nomenclature The variety appears to be a nomen nudum because Penney & Racek (1968: 6) cite a name assigned to Annandale (1911a: 85, footnote), which cannot be found in this paper and in the footnote. Annandale does discuss a Spongilla crateriformis found on Ross Island, in the Andaman Islands, India (approximate coordinates 11.6°N 92.7°E), by an assistant of the Indian Museum Mr C.A. Paiva, but he did not give the specimen an infraspecific or subspecific name. Penney & Racek apparently were of the opinion that this occurrence merited a varietal name, and gave it the name var. insularis, assigning authorship erroneously to Annandale. They created a nomen nudum, as no description was given. The combination is listed as a junior synonym of Radiospongilla crateriformis (Potts, 1882: 12 as Meyenia) in a checklist of Indian freshwater sponges in the collections of the Zoological Survey of India, ZSI (Khera & Chaturved 1976: 14), but it is not mentioned in Soota (1991). Since the type locality of Radiospongilla crateriformis is in Eastern North America, it is quite likely that the Andaman Island occurrence of a population of this species could belong to a distinct (sub)specific taxon. Possibly, the Indian records of R. crateriformis all conform to this subspecies. However, Van Soest (2024: 48) refrained to nomenclaturally formalize the existence of this subspecies because details of the type specimen and where it is deposited and registered are currently unknown. The type material could be in ZSI, Kalkota, but we must await its description (ICZN art. 16). [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. Spongilla crateriformis var. insularis sensu Penney & Racek, 1968. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=195665 on 2024-04-23
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original description
Penney, J.T.; Racek, A.A. (1968). Comprehensive revision of a worldwide collection of freshwater sponges (Porifera: Spongillidae). <em>Bulletin of the United States National Museum.</em> 272: 1-184.
page(s): 6 [details] 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): 48 [details] Available for editors  [request] additional source Khera, S.; Chaturvedi, Y. (1976). Checklist of Indian Freshwater Sponges, with a Catalogue of Type-Specimens in the Collection of the Zoological Survey of India (Porifera: Spongillidae). <em>Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Miscellaneous Publication, Occasional Paper.</em> 4: 1-29 (Issued by the Director of The Zoological Survey of india, Calcutta). page(s): 14 [details] Available for editors [request] status source Annandale, N. (1911). Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids and Polyzoa. Porifera. Pp. 27-126, 241-245, pls I-II. <i>In</i>: Shipley, A.E. (Ed.), Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. (Taylor and Francis: London): i-viii, 1-251. page(s): 85, footnote [details]  Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Nomenclature The variety appears to be a nomen nudum because Penney & Racek (1968: 6) cite a name assigned to Annandale (1911a: 85, footnote), which cannot be found in this paper and in the footnote. Annandale does discuss a Spongilla crateriformis found on Ross Island, in the Andaman Islands, India (approximate coordinates 11.6°N 92.7°E), by an assistant of the Indian Museum Mr C.A. Paiva, but he did not give the specimen an infraspecific or subspecific name. Penney & Racek apparently were of the opinion that this occurrence merited a varietal name, and gave it the name var. insularis, assigning authorship erroneously to Annandale. They created a nomen nudum, as no description was given. The combination is listed as a junior synonym of Radiospongilla crateriformis (Potts, 1882: 12 as Meyenia) in a checklist of Indian freshwater sponges in the collections of the Zoological Survey of India, ZSI (Khera & Chaturved 1976: 14), but it is not mentioned in Soota (1991). Since the type locality of Radiospongilla crateriformis is in Eastern North America, it is quite likely that the Andaman Island occurrence of a population of this species could belong to a distinct (sub)specific taxon. Possibly, the Indian records of R. crateriformis all conform to this subspecies. However, Van Soest (2024: 48) refrained to nomenclaturally formalize the existence of this subspecies because details of the type specimen and where it is deposited and registered are currently unknown. The type material could be in ZSI, Kalkota, but we must await its description (ICZN art. 16). [details]
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