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Isodictya kerguelenensis (Ridley & Dendy, 1886)

168460  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:168460)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Porifera (Phylum)
  4. Demospongiae (Class)
  5. Heteroscleromorpha (Subclass)
  6. Poecilosclerida (Order)
  7. Isodictyidae (Family)
  8. Isodictya (Genus)
  9. Isodictya kerguelenensis (Species)
accepted
Species
Desmacidon antarctica Kirkpatrick, 1908 · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Desmacidon cactoides Kirkpatrick, 1908 · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Desmacidon kerguelenensis (Ridley & Dendy, 1886) · unaccepted (genus transfer)
Desmacidon kerguelenensis var. antarctica Kirkpatrick, 1908 · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Homoeodictya antarctica (Kirkpatrick, 1908) · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Homoeodictya kerguelenensis Ridley & Dendy, 1886 · unaccepted (genus transfer)
Isodictya antarctica (Kirkpatrick, 1908) · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Isodictya cactoides (Kirkpatrick, 1908) · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Isodictya kerguelensis · unaccepted (misspelling of species name)
Platychalina cactoides (Kirkpatrick, 1908) · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Homoeodictya kerguelenensis Ridley & Dendy, 1886) Ridley, S.O.; Dendy, A. (1886). Preliminary report on the Monaxonida collected by H.M.S. Challenger. Part I. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> 18: 325-351, 470-493.
page(s): 346-347 [details] OpenAccess publication
Type locality contained in Kerguelen Islands  
type locality contained in Kerguelen Islands [from synonym] [view taxon] [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. (2025). World Porifera Database. Isodictya kerguelenensis (Ridley & Dendy, 1886). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=168460 on 2025-04-28
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2005-07-10 18:05:41Z
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2005-07-15 06:52:57Z
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van Soest, Rob W.M.
2007-10-05 14:06:34Z
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van Soest, Rob W.M.

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Nomenclature

original description (of Desmacidon antarctica Kirkpatrick, 1908) Kirkpatrick, R. (1908). Porifera (Sponges). II. Tetraxonida, Dendy. <em>National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1904 Natural History.</em> 4, Zoology: 1-56, pls VIII-XXVI. [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Desmacidon cactoides Kirkpatrick, 1908) Kirkpatrick, R. (1908). Porifera (Sponges). II. Tetraxonida, Dendy. <em>National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1904 Natural History.</em> 4, Zoology: 1-56, pls VIII-XXVI. [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Homoeodictya kerguelenensis Ridley & Dendy, 1886) Ridley, S.O.; Dendy, A. (1886). Preliminary report on the Monaxonida collected by H.M.S. Challenger. Part I. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> 18: 325-351, 470-493.
page(s): 346-347 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Desmacidon kerguelenensis var. antarctica Kirkpatrick, 1908) Kirkpatrick, R. (1908). Porifera (Sponges). II. Tetraxonida, Dendy. <em>National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1904 Natural History.</em> 4, Zoology: 1-56, pls VIII-XXVI.
page(s): 37-38 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Homoeodictya kerguelenensis var. simillima Hentschel, 1914) Hentschel, E. (1914). Monaxone Kieselschwämme und Hornschwämme der Deutschen Südpolar-Expedition 1901-1903. <em>Deutsche Südpolar-Expedition.</em> 15 (1): 35-141, pls IV-VIII.
page(s): 80-81 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Desmacidon kerguelenensis var. cactoides Kirkpatrick, 1908) Kirkpatrick, R. (1908). Porifera (Sponges). II. Tetraxonida, Dendy. <em>National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1904 Natural History.</em> 4, Zoology: 1-56, pls VIII-XXVI.
page(s): 38-39 [details] OpenAccess publication

Ecology

ecology source De Freitas, M. A.; Cunha-Ferreira, I. C.; Leal, C. V.; Fernandez, J. C.; Omachi, C. Y.; Campos, L. S.; Masi, B. P.; Krüger, R. H.; Hajdu, E.; Thompson, C. C.; Thompson, F. L. (2023). Microbiome diversity from sponges biogeographically distributed between South America and Antarctica. <em>Science of The Total Environment.</em> 163256., available online at https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1gxVrB8ccyVu0
page(s): Supplementary Table 1 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

Other

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] 

additional source Ríos, P. (2006). Esponjas del Orden Poecilosclerida de las campañas españolas de bentos antártico. <em>Ph.D. Thesis, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela- Spain.</em> 552 pp. [In Spanish].
page(s): 404-411 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Schejter, L.; Cristobo, J.; Ríos, P. (2024). New records of demosponges (Porifera) from the South Orkney Islands (Antarctica) with a checklist for the region. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5403(4): 401-430., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5403.4.1
page(s): 411-412 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Clarke, Andrew; Johnston, Nadine M. (2003). Antarctic marine benthic diversity. <em>Oceanography and Marine Biology: an Annual Review.</em> 41: 47-114. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Boury-Esnault, N.; Van Beveren, M. (1982). Les Démosponges du plateau continental de Kerguelen-Heard. <em>Comité national français des recherches antarctiques.</em> 52: 1-175.
page(s): 68-70 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Desqueyroux, R. (1975). Esponjas (Porifera) de la region antartica chilena. <em>Cahiers de Biologie Marine.</em> 16 (1): 47-82.
page(s): 61 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Koltun, V.M. (1964). Sponges of the Antarctic. 1 Tetraxonida and Cornacuspongida. Pp. 6-133, 443-448. <em>In: Pavlovskii, E.P., Andriyashev,A.P. & Ushakov, P.V. (Eds), Biological Reports of the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958).</em> Akademya Nauk SSSR [English translation,1966, Israel Program for Scientific Translation].
page(s): 42-43 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Topsent, E. (1917). Spongiaires. Pp. 1-88, pls 1-6. <em>In: Joubin, L. (Ed.), Deuxième Expédition Antarctique Française (1908-1910) Commandée par le Dr. Jean Charcot.</em> Sciences Physiques: Documents Scientifiques (Paris). 4. (Masson & Cie: Paris).
page(s): 67 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Ríos, P.; Cristobo, F.J.; Urgorri, V. (2004). Poecilosclerida (Porifera, Demospongiae) collected by the Spanish Antarctic expedition BENTART-94. <em>Cahiers de Biologie Marine.</em> 45: 97-119.
page(s): 114 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Desqueyroux-Faúndez, R. (1989). Demospongiae (Porifera) del litoral chileno antartico. <em>Serie Cientifica INACH.</em> 39: 97-158.
page(s): 113-114 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Lévi, C. (1956). Éponges littorales des Îles Kerguelen récoltées par M. Angot. <em>Mémoires de l'Institut Scientifique de Madagascar.</em> (A) 10: 25-34.
page(s): 27-28 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Göcke, C.; Janussen, D. (2013). Demospongiae of ANT XXIV/2 (SYSTCO I) Expedition—Antarctic Eastern Weddell Sea. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3692(1): 28-101., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2013/f/z03692p101f.pdf
page(s): 70-71 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

biology source Koutsouveli, V.; Taboada, S.; Moles, J.; Cristobo, J.; Ríos, P.; Bertran, A.; Solà, J.; Avila, C.; Riesgo, A. (2018). Insights into the reproduction of some Antarctic dendroceratid, poecilosclerid, and haplosclerid demosponges. <em>PLOS ONE.</em> 13(2): e0192267., available online at https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0192267
page(s): 8-9 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

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Reproduction Viviparous. Description of late embryogenesis stages. p.8 [details]
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To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Isodictya cactoides (Kirkpatrick, 1908))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Isodictya antarctica (Kirkpatrick, 1908))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Isodictya kerguelenensis) 
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins) 
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins) (from synonym Homoeodictya kerguelenensis Ridley & Dendy, 1886)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins) (from synonym Isodictya cactoides (Kirkpatrick, 1908))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (39 records) 
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