African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS)

WoRMS taxon details

Racodiscula Zittel, 1878

AphiaID

132081 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:132081)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Typetaxon

Racodiscula asteroides Zittel, 1878 (type by subsequent designation)

Parent

Theonellidae Lendenfeld, 1903

Original name

Racodiscula Zittel, 1878

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Species Racodiscula asteroides Zittel, 1878
Species Racodiscula borisi Schuster, 2018
Species Racodiscula radixa Schuster, 2018
Species Racodiscula sceptrellifera (Carter, 1881)
Species Racodiscula seymoura Schuster, 2018
Species Racodiscula spinispirulifera (Carter, 1880)
Species Racodiscula spiroglyphi Annandale, 1911
Species Racodiscula clava Schmidt, 1879 accepted as Exsuperantia archipelagus Carvalho & Pisera, 2019
Species Racodiscula incrustans Vacelet & Vasseur, 1971 accepted as Kaliapsis incrustans (Vacelet & Vasseur, 1971) (genus transfer)
Species Racodiscula nucerium (Schmidt, 1879) accepted as Racodiscula asteroides Zittel, 1878 (junior synonym)
Species Racodiscula polydiscus (Schmidt, 1870) accepted as Discodermia polydiscus (Bowerbank, 1869) (genus transfer)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Grammatical gender

feminine

Original description

Zittel, K.A. (1878). Studien über fossile Spongien. II. Lithistidae. Abhandlungen der Mathematisch-Physikalischen Classe der Königlich-Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. 13 (1): 65-154. [details]

Taxonomic citation

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. (2025). World Porifera Database. Racodiscula Zittel, 1878. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=132081 on 2025-03-15

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

van Soest, Rob W.M.

2005-08-01 12:12:31Z

changed

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2006-11-25 18:55:41Z

changed

van Soest, Rob W.M.

2020-11-12 10:14:39Z

changed

van Soest, Rob W.M.

2020-12-16 10:32:25Z

changed

van Soest, Rob W.M.

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Nomenclature

original description Zittel, K.A. (1878). Studien über fossile Spongien. II. Lithistidae. Abhandlungen der Mathematisch-Physikalischen Classe der Königlich-Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. 13 (1): 65-154. [details]

basis of record Van Soest, R.W.M. (2001). Porifera, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 85-103. (look up in IMIS) [details]

Other

additional source Schuster, A.; Cárdenas, P.; Pisera, A.; Pomponi, S.A.; Kelly, M.; Wörheide, G.; Erpenbeck, D. (2018). Seven new deep-water Tetractinellida (Porifera: Demospongiae) from the Galápagos Islands – morphological descriptions and DNA barcodes. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 184 (2): 273-303., available online at https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx110/4951921?redirectedFrom=fulltext
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