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WoRMS name details
Nomenclatureoriginal description
Ridley, S.O.; Dendy, A. (1886). Preliminary report on the Monaxonida collected by H.M.S. Challenger. Part I. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> 18: 325-351, 470-493. page(s): 489 [details] 
original description
Ridley, S.O.; Dendy, A. (1887). Report on the Monaxonida collected by H.M.S. 'Challenger' during the years 1873-76. <em>Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Zoology.</em> 20 (part 59): i-lxviii, 1-275, pl. 1-51, 1 map., available online at http://www.19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-Reports/Zool-59/README.htm page(s): 224-225 [details] 
basis of record
Van Soest, R.W.M. (2024). Correcting sponge names: nomenclatural update of lower taxa level Porifera. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5398(1): 1-122., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5398.1.1 page(s): 85 [details] Available for editors [request]
Syntype BMNH 1887.11.19.2, geounit Prince Edward Islands [details]
Syntype BMNH 1954.2.16.54-64 slides, geounit Kerguelen Islands [details]
From editor or global species database
Status The variety was described by Ridley & Dendy from Challenger Exped. Stat. 145, at the Prince Edward Islands, Subantarctic Indian Ocean, 46.7167°S 38.075°E, depth 256 m (three syntypes BMNH 1887.11.19.2, and another 50 specimens from Kerguelen localities lacking precise coordinates). The specimens described and illustrated resemble Antarctic species Stylocordyla chupachups Uriz et al. (2011: 247), but these authors claim they could not verify if Ridley & Dendy’s variety was conspecific with S. chupachups, because Ridley & Dendy did not provide spicule size data. It would have been ideal if they would have borrowed slides or one of the syntype specimens in London to avoid a possible conspecificity. An extra reason for doing so is Hentschel’s (1914: 54) report of the var. globosa from Gauss Station in Eastern Antarctica (66.0358°S 89.6333°E) with shape, absence of a microxea palisade in the globular body, and spicule sizes similar to those of S. chupachups. Van Soest (2024: 85) proposed to elevate the present variety to species level as Stylocordyla globosa Ridley & Dendy, 1886, awaiting further comparison with type material of both S. globosa and S. chupachups. [details]
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