Species Dendrilla antarctica Topsent, 1905

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• Dendrilla antarctica Topsent, E. 1905. Note sur les Eponges recueillies par le Français dans l'Antarctique, description d'une Dendrilla nouvelle. Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris [published 1895-1906] 11: 502-505 [504].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHN unknown fragments whereabouts unknown (egaz for Palmer Archipelago), 20 m, Booth Wandel Is., Palmer Archipelago, Antarctic Peninsula; 29 m, Anvers Is. [64°11'31"S 64°50'59"W].

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Aust. Antarctic Terr., (Heard Is.); Wilhelm II Coast, Mirnyy Station, George V Coast, Commonwealth Bay, Antarctic and Subantarctic.

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 12–549 m.

General References

Burton, M. 1929. Porifera. Part 2. Antarctic sponges. In, British Antarctic (`Terra Nova') Expedition, 1910. Natural History Report. Zoology. 6(4): 393–458 pls 1–5. 393-458 pls 1-5 [448] (misidentified as Dendrilla membranosa Pallas, 1766)

Burton, M. 1934. Sponges. pp. 1–58, 8 pls in Bock, S. (ed.) Further Zoological Results of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition 1901–1903 Vol. 3(2). [46]

Burton, M. 1938. Non-calcareous sponges. Scientific Reports of the Australasian Antarctic Research Expedition 1911-1914 C 9(5): 1-22 fig. 1 [19]

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] [111]

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 [197]

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