Deep-Sea taxon details
Arhythmata tetradentifera (Koltun, 1970)
1553051 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1553051)
accepted
Species
Melonanchora tetradentifera Koltun, 1970 · unaccepted (genus transfer)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Melonanchora tetradentifera Koltun, 1970) Koltun, V.M. (1970). Sponge fauna of the northwestern Pacific from the shallows to the hadal depths. Pp. 165-221. <em>In: Bogorov, V.G. (Ed.), Fauna of the Kurile-Kamchatka Trench and its environment. Institute of Oceanology of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., 86. (Akademiya Nauk SSSR. Trudy Instituta Okeanologii in P.P. Shishov and Izdatelstvo Nauka, Moskwa).</em> 1-372, pls 1-8.
page(s): 197 [details] Available for editors
page(s): 197 [details] Available for editors
Type locality contained in Oyashio Current
type locality contained in Oyashio Current [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
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. (2025). World Porifera Database. Arhythmata tetradentifera (Koltun, 1970). Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1553051 on 2026-03-26
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Arhythmata tetradentifera (Koltun, 1970). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/DeepSea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1553051 on 2026-03-26
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(of Melonanchora tetradentifera Koltun, 1970) Koltun, V.M. (1970). Sponge fauna of the northwestern Pacific from the shallows to the hadal depths. Pp. 165-221. <em>In: Bogorov, V.G. (Ed.), Fauna of the Kurile-Kamchatka Trench and its environment. Institute of Oceanology of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., 86. (Akademiya Nauk SSSR. Trudy Instituta Okeanologii in P.P. Shishov and Izdatelstvo Nauka, Moskwa).</em> 1-372, pls 1-8.
page(s): 197 [details] Available for editors
new combination reference Santín, A.; Uriz, M.-J.; Cristobo, J.; Xavier, J.R.; Ríos, P. (2021). Unique spicules may confound species differentiation: taxonomy and biogeography of <i>Melonanchora</i> Carter, 1874 and two new related genera (Myxillidae: Poecilosclerida) from the Okhotsk Sea. <em>PeerJ.</em> 9: e12515., available online at https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12515
page(s): 42; note: The species name was misspelled as A. tetradeditrifera. [details] Available for editors
page(s): 197 [details] Available for editors
new combination reference Santín, A.; Uriz, M.-J.; Cristobo, J.; Xavier, J.R.; Ríos, P. (2021). Unique spicules may confound species differentiation: taxonomy and biogeography of <i>Melonanchora</i> Carter, 1874 and two new related genera (Myxillidae: Poecilosclerida) from the Okhotsk Sea. <em>PeerJ.</em> 9: e12515., available online at https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12515
page(s): 42; note: The species name was misspelled as A. tetradeditrifera. [details] Available for editors
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Spelling Santin et al. (2021: 40-42) persistently misspelled Koltun's name as tetradedritifera instead of tetradentifera. We assume this to be a lapsus calami as the Figure 14 and its caption carry the name tetradentifera. [details]
