original description(ofEumastia sitiens Schmidt, 1870)Schmidt, O. (1870). Grundzüge einer Spongien-Fauna des atlantischen Gebietes. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): iii-iv, 1-88, pls I-VI. page(s): 42 [details]
basis of recordKoltun, V.M. (1959). Siliceous horny sponges of the northern and far eastern seas of the U.S.S.R. (Order Cornacuspongida). [In Russian] Opredeliteli po faune SSR. Izdatelstvo Zoologicheskogo Instituta Akademii nauk USSR, Moscow-Leningrad. 67: 1–236. page(s): 206-207 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional sourceVan Soest, R.W.M. (2001). Porifera, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 85-103. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional sourceGinn, B.K.; Logan, A.; Thomas, M.L.H.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (1998). Hymedesmia canadensis (Porifera: Poecilosclerida), a new species among new geographical records from the Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick, Canada. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 78: 1093-1100.[details] Available for editors [request]
additional sourceGosner, K. L. (1971). Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., London. 693 pp. [pdf copepod and branchiuran :445-455]. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional sourceLinkletter, L. E. (1977). A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68: p.[details]
additional sourceKoltun, V.M. (1959 [1971]). [Siliceous horny sponges of the northern and fareastern seas of the U.S.S.R.] [translation in English by Fisheries Research Board of Canada Translation Series No. 1842]. Opredeliteli po faune SSR, izdavaemye Zoologicheskim muzeem Akademii nauk. 67: 1-365. page(s): 244-245 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional sourceLakwal, V.R.; Kharate, D.S.; Mokashe, S.S. (2018). Diversity and distribution of intertidal marine sponges from Ratnagiri coast of Arabian Sea, (M.S.) India. Flora and Fauna. 24 (1, Special Issue): 207-216. page(s): 210; note: Misapplication: This is misidentified. H. sitiens is a North Atlantic Arctic-Boreal species.The present record is incertae sedis. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional sourceStone, R.P.; Lehnert, H.; Hoff, G.R. (2019). Inventory of the eastern Bering Sea sponge fauna, geographic range extensions and description of Antho ridgwayi sp. nov. Zootaxa. 4567(2): 236-250., available online athttps://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4567.2.2 page(s): 239, Table 1 [details] Available for editors [request]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Arctic Ocean
Eastern Bering Sea
Laptev Sea
North Atlantic Ocean
North Pacific Ocean
Unreviewed
Bay of Fundy
Unreviewed
Diet suspension feeding. Captures minute particles of food on their collars and ingesting them. [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 used to be called Pellina sitiens as per Linkletter, 1977; known to grow on living bivalves and barnacles [details]
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