Species Clathria (Axosuberites) nidificata (Kirkpatrick, 1907)

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• Ophlitaspongia nidificata Kirkpatrick, R. 1907. Preliminary report on the Monaxonellida of the National Antarctic Expedition. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 20: 271-291 [274].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1908.2.5.131 wet, slides (egaz), 198 m, Coulman Is., Ross Sea, New Zealand Antarctic Terr. [73°32'56"S 169°53'13"E].
• Ophlitaspongia flabellata Topsent, E. 1916. Diagnoses d'Eponges recueillies dans l'Antarctique par le Pourquoi pas? Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris [published 1895-1906] 22: 163-172 [167].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHN not found (egaz), 92 m, Wiencke Is., Pieltier Channel, Palmer Archipelago, Antarctic Peninsula; 200 m, Marguerite Bay [64°11'31"S 64°50'59"W].
• Axociella rameus 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] [71].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZIL 6600 wet (egaz), 170 m, Mawson Coast, Aust. Antarctic Terr. [no coords available].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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] [263]

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Aust. Antarctic Terr.; Mawson Coast, Enderby Land, Amery Ice Shelf, Clarie Coast, Oates Coast, also Weddell Sea and Subantarctic.

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 93–540 m; hard substrates.

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] [256]

Koltun, V.M. 1976. Porifera. Part I. Antarctic sponges. Report of the British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition, 1928–31 B Zoology & Botany 9(4): 147-198 pls 1-3 [190]

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