Geodia cydonium , Gorbunov 1946
Description
GEODIA CYDONIUM (JAMESON, 1811)
Records in the boreo-arctic region
North-eastern Kara Sea: Off Sewernaja Semlja (Gorbunov, 1946: p. 37).
South-western Barents Sea: Kola Fjord (Breitfuss, 1912: p. 62, as Cydonium mülleri; also referred to by Hentschel, 1929: p. 920, as Geodia mülleri).
Norway: Off Vadsø, Varanger Fjord (Burton, 1930: p. 490, G. mülleri); Røberg, Trondheim Fjord (Arndt, 1913: p. 112, G. mülleri); Korsfjord near Bergen (Norman, 1879: p. 13, Geodia sp.; Brunchorst, 1891: p. 31, Geodia sp., according to Arndt, 1935: p. 30, both G. cydonium); off Haugesund (Schmidt, 1875: p. 120, Geodia gigas, according to Arndt, 1935: p. 30, G. cydonium); off Stavanger (Burton, 1930: p. 490, G. mülleri).
Iceland: 64°56′N, 11°48′W, 216 m, 25.08.1902 (Burton, 1959: p. 9); Faxa Bay (Einarsson, 1941: p. 23, as G. mülleri).
Discussion: Koltun (1966) reinvestigated the specimens of Gorbunov (1946) and Breitfuss (1912) and found that they are G. phlegraei. The specimen of Arndt (1913) could not be traced. A.B.K. and H.T.R. have sampled intensively on the same locality, Røberg in the Trondheimsfjord, and found many specimens of G. barretti and G. phlegraei, but not a single specimen referable to G. cydonium; note that the specimen of Arndt was probably about 15 cm in diameter. We conclude that Arndt’s specimen must have been misidentified. Arndt (1935) referred to some Geodia ‘sp.’s in the literature as G. cydonium. Nothing indicates that Arndt ever saw any of these specimens, rather he just felt certain that G. cydonium was an inhabitant of Norwegian waters. We have worked along most of the Norwegian coast and we have not found specimens that could be referred to G. cydonium. Probably all those referred to above represent G. barretti, which is very common along the entire Norwegian coastline.
The Icelandic records are doubtful, too. We reinvestigated the specimen of Burton (1959) stored at ZMUC; in our opinion it is a fragment of G. barretti. Einarsson (1941) wrote ‘... enormous masses of sponges (G. mülleri ?) are encountered...’ Unfortunately we have no other samples from the same area, but everything considered, if it is a Geodia at all, it is presumably G. barretti.
Our conclusion is that there are no certain records of G. cydonium north of the line Shetland Islands– Lousy Bank, west of the Faroe Islands. The last mentioned locality is listed by Burton (1959), and no description or further reference is given; accordingly, it may also be considered doubtful until a control is possible.
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Geodiidae
- Genus
- Geodia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Tetractinellida
- Phylum
- Porifera
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- cydonium
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- Taxonomic concept label
- Geodia cydonium , 1946 sec. Cárdenas, Rapp, Klitgaard, Best, Thollesson & Tendal, 2013
References
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- Gorbunov GP. 1946. Benthonic populations of the novosibirsk shallow and central part of the Arctic Ocean. Tr. dreif. eksped. Glavsevmorputi na 1 / p ' G. Sedov' 1937 - 1940 III: 30 - 138 (in Russian).
- Breitfuss JS. 1912. Zur Kenntnis der Spongio-Fauna des Kola Fjords. Travaux de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de St. Petersbourg, Section Zoologie 41: 61 - 80, pls I - II.
- Hentschel E. 1929. Die Kiesel- und Hornschwamme des Nordlichen Eismeers. In: Romer F, Schaudinn F, Brauer A, Arndt W, eds. Fauna Arctica. Eine Zusammenstellung der arktischen Tierformen mit besonderer Berucksichtigung des Spitzbergen-Gebietes auf Grund der Ergebnisse der Deutschen Expedition in das Nordliche Eismeer im Jahre 1898. Jena: G. Fischer, 857 - 1042, pls XII - XIV.
- Burton M. 1930. Norwegian sponges from the Norman collection. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1930: 487 - 546, pls I - II.
- Arndt W. 1913. Zoologische Ergebnisse der ersten Lehr- Expedition der P. Scottlanderschen Jubilaums-Stifting. Jahresberichte der Schlesischen Gesellschaft fur vaterlandische Cultur 90: 110 - 119.
- Norman AM. 1879. The Mollusca of the fjords near Bergen, Norway. Journal of Conchology 2: 8 - 77.
- Brunchorst J. 1891. Die biologische Meeresstation in Bergen. Bergens Museums Aarsberetning for 1890 5: 1 - 31.
- Arndt W. 1935. Porifera. III. a Die Tierwelt der Nord- und Ostsee. Leipzig. 1 - 140.
- Schmidt O. 1875. Spongien Die Expedition zur physikalischchemischen und biologischen Untersuchung der Nordsee im Sommer 1872. Jahresbericht der Commission zur Wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung der Deutschen Meere in Kiel. 115 - 120, pl. I.
- Burton M. 1959. Spongia. In: Fridriksson A, Tuxen SL, eds. The zoology of Iceland. Copenhagen: Ejnar Munksgaard, 1 - 71.
- Einarsson H. 1941. Survey of the benthonic animal communities of Faxa Bay (Iceland). Meddelelser fra Kommissionen for Danmarks fiskeri- og HavundersOgelser. Serie: Fiskeri 11: 1 - 46.
- Koltun VM. 1966. Four-rayed sponges of Northern and Far Eastern seas of the USSR (order Tetraxonida). Opredeliti Faunei SSSR 90. (Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR: Moscow, Leningrad): 1 - 112, pls I - XXXVIII (in Russian).