Species Suberites microstomus Ridley & Dendy, 1887

Museums

Regional Maps

• Suberites microstomus Ridley, S.O. & Dendy, A. 1887. Report on the Monaxonida collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology Zool. 20(59): 1-275 pls 1-51 [199].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1887.5.2.86 wet, 274 m, W of Heard Is., Subantarctic [52°4´S 71°22´E].
  Paratype(s) BMNH 1887.5.2.86a 9 slides 2/39, 2/40; BMNH 1891.10.3.87 slide 2/40.
• Suberites microstomus stellatus Kirkpatrick, R. 1908. Porifera. II. Tetraxonida. National Antarctic Expedition 1901–1904. Natural History London : British Museum Vol. 4 1–56 pls 8–26. [19].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 1908.2.5.113 wet, 238 m, off Ross Is., Antarctic, Discovery winter quarters [77°49´S 167°7´4˜E]; BMNH 1908.2.5.114 wet, slide, 238 m, off Ross Is., Antarctic, Discovery winter quarters [77°49´S 167°7´4˜E]; BMNH 1908.2.5.116 slide 2/42, 238 m, off Ross Is., Antarctic, Discovery winter quarters [77°49´S 167°7´4˜E]; BMNH 1908.2.5.113a–i 10 slides 2/41, 2/42, 238 m, off Ross Is., Antarctic, Discovery winter quarters [77°49´S 167°7´4˜E].

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] [25, in part]
• 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 [30]

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Heard Is., Aust. Antarctic Terr.; off Wilhelm II Coast, also Weddell Sea and Subantarctic.

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 195–500 m.

History of changes