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Isodictya simulans (Johnston, 1842)
194737 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:194737)
unaccepted (genus transfer)
Species
- Variety Isodictya simulans var. cancellata Carter, 1887 accepted as Haliclona merguiensis Van Soest, 2024 (genus transfer and preoccupied)
- Variety Isodictya simulans var. incrustans Carter, 1887 accepted as Haliclona carteri Burton, 1959 (genus transfer and subsequent junior homonymy)
- Variety Isodictya simulans var. tubuloramosa Carter, 1887 accepted as Haliclona tubuloramosa (Carter, 1887) (genus transfer and status change)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Halichondria simulans Johnston, 1842) Johnston, G. (1842). A History of British Sponges and Lithophytes. <em>(W.H. Lizars: Edinburgh).</em> i-xii, 1-264, pls I-XXV., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35290582 [details]
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de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez, B.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Cárdenas, P.; Díaz, M.-C.; Dohrmann, M.; Downey, R.; Goodwin, C.; Hajdu, E.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Kelly, M.; Klautau, M.; Lim, S.C.; Manconi, R.; Morrow, C.; Pinheiro, U.; Pisera, A.B.; Ríos, P.; Rützler, K.; Schönberg, C.; Turner, T.; Vacelet, J.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Xavier, J. (2024). World Porifera Database. Isodictya simulans (Johnston, 1842). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=194737 on 2024-07-20
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original description
(of Halichondria simulans Johnston, 1842) Johnston, G. (1842). A History of British Sponges and Lithophytes. <em>(W.H. Lizars: Edinburgh).</em> i-xii, 1-264, pls I-XXV., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35290582 [details]
basis of record de Weerdt, W.H. (1986). A systematic revision of the north-eastern Atlantic shallow-water Haplosclerida (Porifera, Demospongiae): 2. Chalinidae. <em>Beaufortia.</em> 36(6): 81-165. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record Bowerbank, J.S. (1866). A Monograph of the British Spongiadae. Volume 2. (Ray Society: London): i-xx, 1-388. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1905089
page(s): 308-309 [details]
additional source Bowerbank, J.S. (1874). A Monograph of the British Spongiadae. Volume 3. (Ray Society: London): i-xvii, 1-367, pls I-XCII., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1871265
page(s): 131-132, Pl. LI 5-6 [details]
additional source Carter, H.J. (1887). Report on the Marine Sponges, chiefly from King Island, in the Mergui Archipelago, collected for the Trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, by Dr. John Anderson, F.R.S., Superintendent of the Museum. <em>Journal of the Linnean Society, Zoology.</em> 21(127-128): 61-84, pls 5-7. [details]
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basis of record de Weerdt, W.H. (1986). A systematic revision of the north-eastern Atlantic shallow-water Haplosclerida (Porifera, Demospongiae): 2. Chalinidae. <em>Beaufortia.</em> 36(6): 81-165. (look up in IMIS) [details]
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basis of record Bowerbank, J.S. (1866). A Monograph of the British Spongiadae. Volume 2. (Ray Society: London): i-xx, 1-388. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1905089
page(s): 308-309 [details]
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additional source Bowerbank, J.S. (1874). A Monograph of the British Spongiadae. Volume 3. (Ray Society: London): i-xvii, 1-367, pls I-XCII., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1871265
page(s): 131-132, Pl. LI 5-6 [details]
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additional source Carter, H.J. (1887). Report on the Marine Sponges, chiefly from King Island, in the Mergui Archipelago, collected for the Trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, by Dr. John Anderson, F.R.S., Superintendent of the Museum. <em>Journal of the Linnean Society, Zoology.</em> 21(127-128): 61-84, pls 5-7. [details]
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Identification The varieties of Isodictya simulans described by Carter (1887), all from the Mergui Archipelago were not clearly described and are in fact unrecognizable. The number 71 mentioned by Carter (p. 69) as belonging to his variety incrustans was later on named as Haliclona carteri by Burton, 1959: 220, again with a tantalizingly short description. Moreover, Burton's material (BMNH 1936.3.4.236a) does not appear to belong to the same species as Carter's nr. 71 (BMNH 1887.6.1.1). [details]