Species Homaxinella balfourensis (Ridley & Dendy, 1886)

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• Axinella balfourensis 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 [480].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1887.5.2.18 wet, 36–109 m, Balfour Bay, Kerguelen, Subantarctic [no coords available].
  Paratype(s) fragment of type.
• Axinella supratumescens Topsent, E. 1907. Poecilosclérides nouvelles recueillies par le Français dans l'Antarctique. Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris [published 1895-1906] 13: 69-76 [74].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) MNHN Paris LBIM DT1660 (coords for Flanders Bay), 2–30 m, Wiencke Is., 2 m, Flanders Bay and beach, Booth-Wandel Is., Palmer Archipelago, Antarctic Peninsula [65°04'22"S 63°33'14"W]; MNHN 9 specimens (coords for Flanders bay), 2–30 m, Wiencke Is., 2 m, Flanders Bay and beach, Booth-Wandel Is., Palmer Archipelago, Antarctic Peninsula [65°04'22"S 63°33'14"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] [84]

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Aust. Antarctic Terr.; Wilhelm II Coast, off Causberg, Queen Mary Coast, Knox Coast, Banzare Coast, Prydz Bay, Antarctic and Subantarctic.

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 2–310 m.

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