Species Myxilla (Myxilla) mollis Ridley & Dendy, 1886

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• Myxilla mollis 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 [471].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 1887.5.2.112 wet, 320–448 m, Chile, (between 50º8´30˜S 74º41´W and 52º45´30˜S 73º46´W); BMNH 1887.5.2.131 wet, 320–448 m, Chile, (between 50º8´30˜S 74º41´W and 52º45´30˜S 73º46´W).
• Myxilla spongiosa 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 [471].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1887.5.2.93 wet, 1097 m, off the mouth of the Rio de la Plata, Argentina (37º17´S 53º52´W).
• Myxilla magna 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 [168].

  Type data:

   Holotype (?MNHN Paris), Peltier Channel, Wiencke Is., Palmer Archipelago, Antarctic Peninsula.

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] [49]

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Aust. Antarctic Terr.; George V Coast, Commonwealth Bay, Kemp Coast, Davis Sea, Oates Coast, Mawson Coast, Enderby Land, also Weddell Sea and SW Atlantic Ocean, Antarctic, Subantarctic and SE Pacific Ocean.

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 7–1080 m.

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