Species Phorbas glaberrimus (Topsent, 1917)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Clathrissa glaberrima Topsent, E. 1917. Spongiaires. 1-88 6 pls in Joubin, L. (ed.). Deuxième Expédition Antarctique Française (1908–1910) commandée par le Dr. Jean Charcot. Paris : Masson. [46].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHN Paris unknown, 197 m, off Alexander Is. (68º35´S 72º40´W), Antarctic Peninsula.
• Pyloderma demonstrans Dendy, A. 1924. Porifera. Part 1. Non-antarctic sponges. pp. 269–392 pls 1–15 in, British Antarctic (Terra Nova) Expedition, 1910. Natural History Report, Zoology Vol. 6. [370].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 1923.10.1.152 wet, 138 m, 12 km E of North Cape, New Zealand.

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] [82]

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Aust. Antarctic Terr.; Clarie Coast, Davis Sea, Mawson Coast, off Banzare, Enderby Land, also Weddell Sea, Subantarctic and New Zealand.

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 90–540 m.

History of changes