Species Halisarca dujardini Johnston, 1842

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• Halisarca dujardini Johnston, G. 1842. A History of British Sponges and Lithophytes. Edinburgh : W.H. Lizars pp. i-xii, 1-264, pls I-XXV. [192].

  Type data:

   Holotype lost (not listed by Gray, J.E. 1848. List of the specimens of British Sponges in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum pp. 24), Berwick Bay, E Coast of England [no coords available].

  Secondary source:

   Ereskovsky, A.V., Lavrov, D.V., Boury-Esnault, N. & Vacelet, J. 2011. Molecular and morphological description of a new species of Halisarca (Demospongiae: Halisarcida) from Mediterranean Sea and a redescription of the type species Halisarca dujardini. Zootaxa 2768: 5-31 [5].
• Halisarca dujardini magellanica Topsent, E. 1901. Spongiaires. pp. 1–54 6 pls in, Expédition Antarctique Belge. Résultats du voyage du S.Y. Belgica en 1897–1898–1899. Rapports scientifiques. Zoologie. [44].

  Type data:

   Holotype MIZL (egaz - Chile), Isla Landonderry, Tierra del Fuego, Chile [27°07'18"S 109°22'08"W].

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] [112]

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Aust. Antarctic, Terr.; Mawson Coast, Arctic, amphi-Atlantic, Mediterranean, Subantarctic, Antarctic and New Zealand.

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth subtidal–450 m.

General References

Aizenshtadt, T.B. & Korotkova, G.P. 1976. Study on oogenesis in marine sponges. Halisarca dujardini. Part 2. Phagocytic activity of oocytes and vitellogenesis. Tsitologiya, Leningrad 18: 818-823 [in Russian]

Chen, W.-T. 1976. Reproduction and speciation in Halisarca. pp. 113-139 in Harrison, F.W. & Cowden, R.R. (eds). Aspects of Sponge Biology. New York : Academic Press 354 pp.

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] (questions synonymy between eastern European and Subantarctic/Antarctic species)

Lévi, C. 1956. Etude des Halisarca de Roscoff. Embryologie et systématique des démosponges. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 93: 1-181

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