Species Tentorium semisuberites (Schmidt, 1870)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Thecophora semisuberites Schmidt, E.O. 1870. Grundzüge einer Spongien-Fauna des Atlantischen Gebietes. Leipzig : Engelmann 88 pp. 6 pls. [50].

  Type data:

   
  Status unknown, ZMUC wet, Greenland, North Atlantic [76°36'50"N 61°22'37"W]; BMNH 1870.5.3.86 slide.

  Secondary source:

   Desqueyroux-Faundez, R. & Stone, S.M. 1992. O. Schmidt Sponge Catalogue. An illustrated guide to the Graz Museum Collection, with notes on additional material. Geneva : Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle iv+190 pp. 49 pls. [75] (re types).

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Aust. Antarctic Terr.; Mawson Coast, Kemp Coast, Enderby Land, Wilhelm II Coast, Amery Ice Shelf, also Weddell Sea and allegedly N Atlantic Ocean, Arctic and Subantarctic.

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 26–2800 m.

General References

Hooper, J.N.A. in Hooper, J.N.A. & Wiedenmayer, F. 1994. Porifera. pp. 1-620 in Wells, A. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Australia Vol. 12 xiii 624 pp. [Date published 21/Nov/1994] (questions alleged conspecificity with the N Atlantic populations proposed by Koltun, V.M. 1970. Sponges of the Arctic and Antarctic, a faunistic review. pp. 286–297 in Fry, W.G. (ed). The Biology of the Porifera. London : Academic Press, Symp. Zool. Soc. Lond. Vol. 25 ., and by Merejkowsky, C. 1878. Preliminary account on sponges of the White Sea. Trudy St Petersburg Obshch. 9: 249–270 [in Russian] [in Russian])

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