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Porifera taxon details
original description
Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1949). The sponges of Woods Hole and adjacent waters. <em>Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology.</em> 103(1): 1-55. [details]
original description
(of Neoesperiopsis deichmannae de Laubenfels, 1949) Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1949). The sponges of Woods Hole and adjacent waters. <em>Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology.</em> 103(1): 1-55. page(s): 15-17 [details]
additional source
Trott, T. J. (2004). Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. <em>Northeastern Naturalist.</em> 11, 261-324., available online at http://www.gulfofmaine.org/kb/files/9793/TROTT-Cobscook%20List.pdf [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
additional source
Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Pollock, L.W. (1998). A practical guide to the marine animals of northeastern North America. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey & London. 367 pp., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=i1AmT31cuR4C [details]
From other sources
Diet suspension feeding. Captures minute particles of food on their collars and ingesting them. [details]
Distribution Prince Edward Island (from the northern tip of Miscou Island, N.B. to Cape Breton Island south of Cheticamp, including the Northumberland Strait and Georges Bay to the Canso Strait causeway); Also, from Acadian, northside of Cape Cod to Newfoundland, and extending south of the province boundary [details]
Habitat infralittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]
Predators generally for group, most predators (crabs and other invertebrates), find sponges distasteful either because of a presumably offensive odor or because of their spicules. Predators do include littorinid snails and nudibranchs. [details]
Reproduction Asexual reproduction by buds and gemmules and sexual reproduction (internally) by eggs and sperm; free-swimming cilated larvae (in general, most species are believed to be hermaphroditic but may not produce male and female gametes simultaneously). [details]
Taxonomy Family: Isodictyidae according to Trott (2004). [details]
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English |
Deichmann's horny sponge |
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French |
éponge de Deichmann |
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