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Rossella racovitzae Topsent 1901

Description

Rossella racovitzae Topsent, 1901

Rossella racovitzae Topsent 1901: 10; Janussen et al. 2004: 1866.

Remarks. This species is known from a single report off Chile; in the Sars Bank at the Drake Passage, by the United States Antarctic Expedition (59°42’00” S; 68°48’00” W, RV Eltanin, station 255), from a depth of 1043–1208 m (NMNH 44935). This species has a mostly Antarctic distribution, being widely distributed on the Antarctic shelf (Janussen et al. 2004).

Notes

Published as part of Reiswig, Henry M. & Araya, Juan Francisco, 2014, A review of the Hexactinellida (Porifera) of Chile, with the first record of Caulophacus Schulze, 1885 (Lyssacinosida: Rossellidae) from the Southeastern Pacific Ocean, pp. 414-428 in Zootaxa 3889 (3) on page 423, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3889.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/229025

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Rossellidae
Genus
Rossella
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Lyssacinosida
Phylum
Porifera
Scientific name authorship
Topsent
Species
racovitzae
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Rossella racovitzae Topsent, 1901 sec. Reiswig & Araya, 2014

References

  • Topsent, E. (1901) Notice preliminaire sur les eponges recueuillies par l'Expedition Antarctique Belge. Archives de Zoologie experimentale et generale, 9 (3), v - xvi. [Notes et Revue]
  • Janussen, D., Tabachnick, K. R. & Tendal, O. S. (2004) Deep-sea Hexactinellida (Porifera) of the Weddell Sea. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 51 (14), 1857 - 1882. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1016 / j. dsr 2.2004.07.018