Species Guitarra fimbriata Carter, 1874

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• Guitarra fimbriata Carter, H.J. 1874. Descriptions and figures of deep-sea sponges and their spicules from the Atlantic Ocean, dredged up on board H.M.S. Porcupine, chiefly in 1869; with figures and descriptions of some remarkable spicules from the Agulhas Shoal and Colon, Panama. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4 14: 207-221, 245-257 pls 13-15 [210].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1882.7.28.109 wet, off NW Coast of British Isles, Atlantic.
• Guitarra voluta Topsent, E. 1904. Spongiaires des Açores. Résultats des Campagnes Scientifiques accomplies par le Prince Albert I. Monaco 25: 1-280 18 pls [209].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHN Paris, Azores.
• Guitarra antarctica Hentschel, E. 1914. Monaxone Kieselschwämme und Hornschwämme der Deutschen Südpolar-Expedition 1901–1903. In Drygalski, E. von (ed.) Deutsche Südpolar-Expedition 1901–1903. 15(Zool. 7):. 35-141 pls 4-8 [75].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMB 4788 wet, 3 slides, 380–385 m, off Wilhelm II Coast, Aust. Antarctic Terr. (66º2´9˜S 89º38´E).
• Guitarra sigmatifera 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 [170].

  Type data:

   Holotype (not found in MNHN Paris), 200 m, Marguerite Bay, Antarctic Peninsula.
• Guitarra indica Dendy, A. 1916. Report on the non-calcareous sponges collected by Mr. James Hornell at Okhamandal in Kattiawar in 1905–6. 93-146, pls 1-4 in Hornell, J. (ed.). Report to the Government of Baroda on the marine zoology of Okhamandal in Kattiawar. London : Williams & Norgate Vol. 2. [124].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 1920.12.9.35 wet (=RN IV. 5a–g figured), Beyt Is., Kattiawar, India.
• Guitarra antarctica novaezealandiae Dendy, A. 1924. Porifera. Part 1. Non-antarctic sponges. pp. 269–392 pls 1–15 in, British Antarctic (Terra Nova) Expedition, 1910. Natural History Report, Zoology Vol. 6. [336].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH some fragments, near Cape Maria van Diemen, New Zealand.
• Guitarra bipocillifera Brøndsted, H.V. 1924. Sponges from New Zealand. Part I. In Mortensen, T. (ed.) Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition, 1914–16. XXIII. Vidensk. Meddr. Dansk Naturh. Foren. Kbh. 77: 435–483. [458].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMUC, 68 m, Colville Channel, New Zealand.

  Secondary source:

   Bergquist, P.R. 1968. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Porifera, Demospongiae, Part 1 (Tetractinomorpha and Lithistida). Bulletin of the New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research 188: 1-105 15 pls 30 figs [11].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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 [426]
• Koltun, V.M. 1959. The Cornacuspongida of the northern and far eastern seas of the U.S.S.R. pp. 1-236 43 pls in, Keys to the Fauna of the U.S.S.R. Vol. 67 Published by the Zoological Institute, Akademia Nauk SSSR. [in Russian] [93]
• 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] [45]

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Aust. Antarctic Terr.; Wilhelm II Coast, George V Coast, also West Indies, N Atlantic, central Atlantic, S Africa, Indian Ocean, New Zealand, Antarctic, Subantarctic and N Pacific Ocean.

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 28–920 m.

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