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Trachycladus spinispirulifer (Carter, 1879)

171050  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:171050)

accepted
Species
Spirastrella dilatata Kieschnick, 1896 · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Spirastrella spinispirulifera (Carter, 1879) · unaccepted (genus transfer)
Suberites spinispirulifer Carter, 1879 · unaccepted (genus transfer)
Trachycladus spinispirulifera · unaccepted (wrong spelling of species name)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Suberites spinispirulifer Carter, 1879) Carter, H.J. (1879). Contributions to our Knowledge of the Spongida. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (5) 3: 284-304, 343-360,pls XXV-XXVII.
page(s): 345-346 [details] OpenAccess publication
Holotype  (of Suberites spinispirulifer Carter, 1879)...  
Holotype (of Suberites spinispirulifer Carter, 1879) BMNH 1871.5.12.1, geounit Agulhas Bank [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. Trachycladus spinispirulifer (Carter, 1879). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php/www.aqua-aquapress.com/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=171050 on 2026-05-26
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original description (of Spirastrella dilatata Kieschnick, 1896) Kieschnick, O. (1896). Silicispongiae von Ternate nach den Sammlungen von Herrn Prof. Dr. W. Kükenthal. <em>Zoologischer Anzeiger.</em> 19 (520): 526-534.
page(s): 534 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Suberites spinispirulifer Carter, 1879) Carter, H.J. (1879). Contributions to our Knowledge of the Spongida. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (5) 3: 284-304, 343-360,pls XXV-XXVII.
page(s): 345-346 [details] OpenAccess publication

basis of record Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002). Family Trachycladidae Hallmann, 1917. Pp. 268-274. <i>In:</i> Hooper, J.N.A.; van Soest, R.W.M. (Eds.) (2002) <i>Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of sponges</i>. (2 Volumes) Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow. 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0747-5_28 [details] Full text PDF

basis of record Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (2002 [2004]). Family Trachycladidae Hallmann, 1917. Pp. 268-274. <i>In:</i> Hooper, J.N.A.; van Soest, R.W.M. (Eds.) (2002) <i>Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of sponges</i>. (2 Volumes) Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow. 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version). ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

basis of record (of Spirastrella spinispirulifera (Carter, 1879)) Uriz, M.J. (1988). Deep-water sponges from the continental shelf and slope off Namibia (Southwest Africa): Classses Hexactinellida and Demospongia. <em>Monografías de Zoología Marina.</em> 3: 9-157.
page(s): 47 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

basis of record (of Trachycladus spinispirulifera) Samaai, T.; Gibbons, M.J. (2005). Demospongiae taxonomy and biodiversity of the Benguela region on the west coast of South Africa. <em>African Natural History.</em> 1: 1-96.
page(s): 23 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source (of Spirastrella spinispirulifera (Carter, 1879)) Kelly, M.; Edwards, A.R.; Wilkinson, M.R.; Alvarez, B.; Cook, S. de C.; Bergquist, P.R.; Buckeridge, St J.; Campbell, H.J.; Reiswig, H.M.; Valentine, C.; Vacelet, J. (2009). Phylum Porifera: sponges. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> pp. 23-46. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source (of Suberites spinispirulifer Carter, 1879) Carter, H.J. (1886). Supplement to the Descriptions of Mr.J. Bracebridge Wilson's Australian Sponges. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (5) 18: 271-290, 369-379, 445-466, pl. X., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222938609459996
page(s): 456; note: under the spelling spinispirulifera [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source (of Spirastrella spinispirulifera (Carter, 1879)) Branch, G. M. (2002). Two Oceans. 5th impression. <em>David Philip, Cate Town & Johannesburg.</em> , available online at http://books.google.es/books?id=W_2QB8ftLgcC [details] 

additional source (of Spirastrella spinispirulifera (Carter, 1879)) Bergquist, P.R. (1968). The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Porifera, Demospongiae, Part 1 (Tetractinomorpha and Lithistida). <em>New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir.</em> 37: 1-105.
page(s): 16-17 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source (of Spirastrella spinispirulifera (Carter, 1879)) Burton, M. (1959). Sponges. <em>In: Scientific Reports. John Murray Expedition 1933-34. 10(5). British Museum (Natural History): London.</em> Pp. 151-281., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49512735
page(s): 209 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source (of Spirastrella spinispirulifera (Carter, 1879)) Lévi, C. (1969). Spongiaires du Vema Seamount (Atlantique Sud). <em>Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle.</em> 41(4): 952-973.
page(s): 956_957 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source (of Spirastrella spinispirulifera (Carter, 1879)) Pulitzer-Finali, G. (1986). A collection of West Indian Demospongiae (Porifera). In appendix, a list of the Demospongiae hitherto recorded from the West Indies. <em>Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale Giacomo Doria.</em> 86: 65-216.
page(s): 91-92; note: Misapplication [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
 
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Holotype (of Suberites spinispirulifer Carter, 1879) BMNH 1871.5.12.1, geounit Agulhas Bank [details]
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