Sycandra tabulata Schuffner 1877, nom.nov.
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Sycandra tabulata Schuffner, 1877
Schuffner (1877: 422, pl. 25 fig. 11) described this Sycon species from Mauritius, comparing it with Sycon elegans (Bowerbank, 1845). Its skeleton is distinct only by the thick bushes of thin fusiforms diactines (140 x 4 µm) in the distal cones of the radial tubes. Borojević (1967) in turn compared his record of Sycon elegans from South Africa with Schuffner’s species. Since S. elegans is a Northeast Atlantic species, this may be interpreted as a suggestion that the South African record may indeed be better assigned to Sycon tabulatum. Schuffner’s combination is preoccupied: it is a junior primary homonym of Sycandra tabulata Haeckel, 1872. Dendy & Row (1913) noticed this already, but assumed both homonyms belonged to Sycon elegans. In view of the fact that Bowerbank's and Haeckel's specimens were from the Mediterranean, while Schuffner's was from Mauritius this synonymy is judged to be unlikely. We propose here to rename Schuffner’s species as Sycon oscari nom.nov. The name is given to honor Oscar Schuffner, the author of its original name.
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Grantiidae
- Genus
- Sycandra
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Leucosolenida
- Phylum
- Porifera
- Scientific name authorship
- Schuffner
- Species
- tabulata
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Sycandra tabulata Schuffner, 1877 sec. Van & De, 2018
References
- Schuffner, O. (1877) Beschreibung einiger neuer Kalkschwamme. Jenaische Zeitschrift fur Naturwissenschaft, 11, 403 - 433. Available from: https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / item / 92049 # page / 413 / mode / 1 up (accessed 21 January 2018)
- Borojevic, R. (1967) Spongiaires d'Afrique du Sud. (2) Calcarea. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa, 37 (3), 183 - 226. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00359196709519066
- Haeckel, E. (1872) Die Kalkschwamme. Eine Monographie in zwei Banden Text und einem Atlas mit 60 Tafeln Abbildungen. Vol. 1 - 3. G. Reimer, Berlin, 484 pp., 418 pp. & 60 pls. Available from: https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / item / 44605 # page / 5 / mode / 1 up (accessed 13 March 2018)
- Dendy, A. & Row, R. W. H. (1913) The classification and phylogeny of the Calcareous Sponges, with a reference list of all the described species, systematically arranged. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1913 (3), 704 - 813. Available from: http: // onlinelibrary. wiley. com / doi / 10.1111 / j. 1469 - 7998.1913. tb 06152. x / full (accessed 21 January 2018)