WoRMS name details
original description
Zirpolo, G. 1927 [1926]. Di una nuova Silicospugna del Golfo di Napoli (<i>Microcordyla asteriae</i> n.g. n.sp.). Bolletino della Società dei Naturalisti in Napoli (2) 38(18): 287-290. [details]
basis of record
Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002). Family Stylocordylidae Topsent, 1892. Pp. 224-226. <i>In</i>: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) <i>Systema Porifera - A guide to the classification of sponges</i>. (2 volumes) Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, 1708 +xvliii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version). [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record
Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002 [2004]). Family Stylocordylidae Topsent, 1892. Pp. 224-226. <i>In</i>: Hooper, J.N.A. & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) <i>Systema Porifera - A guide to the classification of sponges</i>. (2 volumes) Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, 1708 +xvliii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Zirpolo, G. (1929). Note morphologiche e sistematiche su Microcordyla Asteriae Zirpulo. Bollettino della Società dei Naturalisti in Napoli. 41: 15-29. page(s): 15-26; pl. 1: figs 1-9, pl. 2: figs 10-16 [details]
status source
Mortensen, T. (1943). A Monograph of the Echinoidea. III, 3. Camarodonta. II. Echinidæ, Strongylocentrotidæ, Parasaleniidæ, Echinometridæ. 446 pp., C. A. Reitzel, Copenhagen. page(s): 167 [details]
status source
Mortensen, T. 1932. Über den angeblichen Kieselschwamm Microcordyla Asteriæ Zirpolo. Zoologischer Anzeiger 97, 197. page(s): 197 [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Status Microcordyla asteriae Zirpulo, 1927 is based on detached globiferous pedicellariae of Paracentrotus lividus misinterpreted as silicious sponge parasitic on asteroids (see Mortensen, 1932: p. 197, 1943: p. 167). [details]
Type locality Italy [details]From other sources
Taxonomy This is probably not a sponge. [details]
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