Species Poecillastra compressa (Bowerbank, 1866)

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• Ecionema compressa Bowerbank, J.S. 1866. A Monograph of the British Spongiadae. London : Ray Society Vol. 2 388 pp. [55].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1877.5.21.1034 dry, Shetland Ils, N Atlantic [60°39'07"N 2°00'14"W].
  Paratype(s) BMNH 1877.5.21.354 slide.
• Normania laminaris Sollas, W.J. 1886. Preliminary account of the tetractinellid sponges dredged by H.M.S. Challenger, 1872–1876. Part 1. The Choristida. Scientific Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society ns 5: 177-199 [186].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH several fragments (not found (coords for Indonesia)), 1829 m, off Ambon, Indonesia [3°50'39"S 137°40'49"E].
• Normania schulzii Sollas, W.J. 1886. Preliminary account of the tetractinellid sponges dredged by H.M.S. Challenger, 1872–1876. Part 1. The Choristida. Scientific Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society ns 5: 177-199 [185].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 1889.1.1.34 wet, 274 m, West of Heard Is. [52°04´S 71°22´E]; BMNH 1894.11.16.123–124–126–141 19 slides, 1/10, 274 m, West of Heard Is. [52°04´S 71°22´E]; ZMB fragments of type(s?), 274 m, West of Heard Is. [52°04´S 71°22´E].
• Normania tenuilaminaris Sollas, W.J. 1886. Preliminary account of the tetractinellid sponges dredged by H.M.S. Challenger, 1872–1876. Part 1. The Choristida. Scientific Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society ns 5: 177-199 [186].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH (not found (coords for Sagami Nada)), 1417 m, Sagami Bay, Japan [34°56'41"N 139°18'21"E].
• Poecillastra compressa antarctica 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] [18].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, ZIL unknown number, 510–860 m, Budd Coast, Aust. Antarctic Terr. [65°24´S 113°00´E].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Burton, M. 1959. Sponges. Scientific Reports of the John Murray Expedition 10(5): 151-281 41 figs [182]
• Boury-Esnault, N. & Beveren, M. van 1982. Les démosponges du plateau continental de Kerguelen-Heard. Comité national français des Recherches Antarctiques 52: 1-132 21 pls [19]

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Aust. Antarctic Terr., Heard Is.; off Budd Coast, Indian Ocean, Indo-Malayan region, N Pacific Ocean (Japan to Bering Sea, Canada), NE Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea and Southern Ocean.

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 73–1829 m.

History of changes