Species Artemisina apollinis (Ridley & Dendy, 1886)

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• Amphilectus apollinis Ridley, S.O. & Dendy, A. 1886. Preliminary report on the Monaxonida collected by H.M.S. Challenger. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 18: 325-351, 470-493 [350].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 1887.5.2.140 wet, several specimens, 38–118 m, Royal Sound, Kerguelen.
• Artemisina dianae Topsent, E. 1907. Poecilosclérides nouvelles recueillies par le Français dans l'Antarctique. Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris [published 1895-1906] 13: 69-76 [70].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHN Paris LBIM DT1666 dry, Booth-Wandel Is., Palmer Archipelago, Antarctic Peninsula.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Koltun, V.M. 1964. Sponges of the Antarctic. Part 1. Tetraxonida and Cornacuspongida. 6-116, 428-433 (systematic index), pls 1-15 in Pavlovskii, E.P., Andriyashev, A.P. & Ushakov, P.V. (eds). Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., Zoological Institute: Explorations of the fauna of the seas II (X). Biological Reports of the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1955–1958). Moscow : Izdatel'stvo ‘Nauka' Vol. 2. [in Russian] [73]

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Aust. Antarctic Terr.; Wilhelm II Coast, Mawson Coast, also Subantarctic, N Atlantic Ocean and Arctic.

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 18–380 m.

General References

Hooper, J.N.A. 1996. Revision of Microcionidae (Porifera: Poecilosclerida: Demospongiae), with description of Australian species. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 40: 1-626 [Date published 01/06/1996] [560]

Hooper, J.N.A. in Hooper, J.N.A. & Wiedenmayer, F. 1994. Porifera. pp. 1-620 in Wells, A. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Australia Vol. 12 xiii 624 pp. [Date published 21/Nov/1994] (the synonymy of Artemisina dianae Topsent, 1907 in Artemisina apollinis (Ridley & Dendy, 1886) is dubious)

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