Species Bathydorus spinosus Schulze, 1886

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• Bathydorus spinosus Schulze, F.E. 1886. Ueber den Bau und des System der Hexactinelliden. Abhandlungen der Königlich-Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Berlin 1886: 1-97 [50].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1887.10.20 wet (cupboard 27, Challenger Collection), 3400 m, W of Crozet Is., Southern Ocean (46º16´S 48º27´E) [46°16´S 48°27´E].

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Aust. Antarctic Terr.; Southern Ocean and circum-Antarctic.

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 569–4795 m.

General References

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] (Koltun, V.M. 1970. Sponges of the Arctic and Antarctic, a faunistic review. pp. 286–297 in Fry, W.G. (ed). The Biology of the Porifera. London : Academic Press, Symp. Zool. Soc. Lond. Vol. 25 . implied a synonymy of Bathydorus spinosus with Bathydorus laevis, and both with the type species Bathydorus fimbriatus, but he gave no justification for doing so. This action is construed as subjective and not adopted here)

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