Species Hemigellius fimbriatus (Kirkpatrick, 1907)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Gellius fimbriatus Kirkpatrick, R. 1907. Preliminary report on the Monaxonellida of the National Antarctic Expedition. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 20: 271-291 [286].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1908.2.5.192A,B wet, off Ross Is., Discovery winter quarters, Ross Sea, New Zealand Antarctic Terr. (77º49´S 167º7´4˜E) [77°49´S 167°7´4˜E].
  Paratype(s) BMNH 1908.2.5.193 wet; BMNH 1908.2.5.194 wet.

Generic Combinations

• Microxina fimbriata (Kirkpatrick, 1907). —
  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 fimbriatus (Kirkpatrick, 1907). —
  van Soest, R. 2011. Hemigellius fimbriatus (Kirkpatrick, 1907). 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=166758 on 2012-01-18. http://www.marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=166758 (checked on 2012-01-18)

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Aust. Antarctic Terr.; circum-Antarctic and Subantarctic (tentative, pending revision).

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 22–342 m.

General References

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] (misidentified as Gellius rudis Topsent, 1901)

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