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Microxina charcoti Topsent 1916
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Microxina charcoti Topsent, 1916
(Fig. 10d–f)
Material examined: 3 specimens collected in station 6 (SOI; 61°25'S, 44°37'W; 290 m; 3/3/2014; MACN-In 44387; collected by Laura Schejter).
Description: Tubular and ramified specimens, with hairy appearence and with a conulose surface, beige in colour (Figure 10d). Spicules are straight oxeas with sharp ends of 570–710 µm by 25–30 µm and microxeas of 50–65 µm (Figure 10e, f).
Remarks: As far as we know, this species has been only recorded by Topsent (1916, 1917) and Burton (1929). This represents a new record for the SOI.
Notes
Published as part of Schejter, Laura, Cristobo, Javier & Ríos, Pilar, 2024, New records of demosponges (Porifera) from the South Orkney Islands (Antarctica) with a checklist for the region, pp. 401-430 in Zootaxa 5403 (4) on page 420, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5403.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10562154
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- SOI
- Event date
- 2014-03-03
- Verbatim event date
- 2014-03-03
- Scientific name authorship
- Topsent
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Porifera
- Order
- Haplosclerida
- Family
- Niphatidae
- Genus
- Microxina
- Species
- charcoti
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Microxina charcoti Topsent, 1916 sec. Schejter, Cristobo & Ríos, 2024
References
- Topsent, E. (1916) Diagnoses d'eponges recueillies dans l'Antarctique par le Pourquoi-Pas? Bulletin du Museum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris, Series 1, 22 (3), 163 - 172.
- Topsent, E. (1917) Spongiaires. In: Joubin, L. (Ed.), Deuxieme Expedition Antarctique Francaise (1908 - 1910) Commandee par le Dr. Jean Charcot. Sciences Physiques: Documents Scientifiques (Paris). Vol. 4. Masson & Cie, Paris, pp. 1 - 88, pls. 1 - 6.
- Burton, M. (1929) Porifera. Part II. Antarctic Sponges. British Antarctic " Terra Nova " Expedition 1910. Natural History Report, Zoology, 6, 393 - 458.