Species Hemigellius calyx (Ridley & Dendy, 1886)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Gellius calyx Ridley, S.O. & Dendy, A. 1886. Preliminary report on the Monaxonida collected by H.M.S. Challenger. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 18: 325-351, 470-493 [334].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1887.5.2.255 wet, 1100 m, off the mouth of the Rio de la Plata, Argentina (37º17´S 53º52´W) [37°17´S 53°52´W].

Generic Combinations

• Haliclona calyx (Ridley & Dendy, 1886). —
  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]
• Microxina calyx (Ridley & Dendy, 1886). —
  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] [321]
• Hemigellius calyx (Ridley & Dendy, 1886). —
  van Soest, R. 2011. Hemigellius calyx (Ridley & Dendy, 1886). In: Van Soest, R.W.M, Boury-Esnault, N., Hooper, J.N.A., Rützler, K, de Voogd, N.J., Alvarez de Glasby, B., Hajdu, E., Pisera, A.B., Manconi, R., Schoenberg, C., Janussen, D., Tabachnick, K.R., Klautau, M., Picton, B., Kelly, M., Vacelet, J. (2011) World Porifera database. Accessed through: Van Soest, R.W.M, Boury-Esnault, N., Hooper, J.N.A., Rützler, K, de Voogd, N.J., Alvarez de Glasby, B., Hajdu, E., Pisera, A.B., Manconi, R., Schoenberg, C., Janussen, D., Tabachnick, K.R., Klautau, M., Picton, B., Kelly, M., Vacelet, J. (2011) World Porifera database at http://www.marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=166754 on 2012-01-18. http://www.marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=166754 (checked on 2012-01-18)
• Calyxadocia calyx (Ridley & Dendy, 1886). —
  Laubenfels, M.W. de 1936. A discussion of the sponge fauna of the Dry Tortugas in particular, and the West Indies in general, with material for a revision of the families and orders of the Porifera. (Tortugas Lab. Paper No. 467). Publication of the Carnegie Institution of Washington Washington 30: 1-225 22 pls 1 map

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Aust. Antarctic Terr.; Enderby Land, off Amery Ice Shelf, Banzare Coast, Claire Coast, Queen Mary Coast, also SW Atlantic (Magellanic Province) and Antarctic.

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 180–1098 m.

History of changes