MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Poecillastra Sollas, 1888

Deep-Sea taxon details

Poecillastra Sollas, 1888

AphiaID

132016 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:132016)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Vulcanellidae Cárdenas, Xavier, Reveillaud, Schander & Rapp, 2011

Original name

Poecillastra Sollas, 1888

Synonymised names

Chelotropaena Lendenfeld, 1907 · unaccepted (junior synonym)

Normania Bowerbank, 1869 · unaccepted (preoccupied)

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Species Poecillastra antarctica Koltun, 1964
Species Poecillastra ciliata Wilson, 1925
Species Poecillastra compressa (Bowerbank, 1866)
Species Poecillastra crassiuscula (Sollas, 1886)
Species Poecillastra laminaris (Sollas, 1886)
Species Poecillastra macquariensis Kelly & Cárdenas, 2019
Species Poecillastra rickettsi de Laubenfels, 1930
Species Poecillastra stipitata Lévi, 1993
Species Poecillastra symbiotica Topsent, 1902
Species Poecillastra tenuilaminaris (Sollas, 1886)
Species Poecillastra tenuirhabda (Lendenfeld, 1907)
Species Poecillastra tricornis Wilson, 1904 accepted as Vulcanella tricornis (Wilson, 1904) (genus transfer)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Sollas, W.J. (1888). Report on the Tetractinellida collected by H.M.S. Challenger, during the years 1873-1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Zoology. 25 (part 63): 1-458, pl. 1-44, 1 map., available online at http://www.19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-Reports/Zool-63/htm/doc.html [details]

Descriptive notes

Homonymy Normania Bowerbank, 1869, erected for type species N. crassa, is preoccupied by Normania Brady, 1866 (Crustacea).

Homonymy Normania Bowerbank, 1869, erected for type species N. crassa, is preoccupied by Normania Brady, 1866 (Crustacea). [details]

Taxonomic citation

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. Poecillastra Sollas, 1888. Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://www.marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=132016 on 2025-05-28

Thematic species database citation

Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Poecillastra Sollas, 1888. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/DeepSea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=132016 on 2025-05-28

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

van Soest, Rob W.M.

2005-12-05 19:30:18Z

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van Soest, Rob W.M.

2010-02-13 15:01:31Z

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van Soest, Rob W.M.

2012-04-27 21:46:12Z

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Boury-Esnault, Nicole

2020-10-23 09:58:42Z

changed

van Soest, Rob W.M.

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original description Sollas, W.J. (1888). Report on the Tetractinellida collected by H.M.S. Challenger, during the years 1873-1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Zoology. 25 (part 63): 1-458, pl. 1-44, 1 map., available online at http://www.19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-Reports/Zool-63/htm/doc.html [details]

original description (of Chelotropaena Lendenfeld, 1907) Lendenfeld, R. von. (1907). Die Tetraxonia. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf der Dampfer Valdivia 1898-1899. 11(1-2): i-iv, 59-374, pls IX-XLVI.
page(s): 231 [details]

original description (of Normania Bowerbank, 1869) Bowerbank, J.S. (1869). Shetland Final Dredging Report. Part 2. On the Crustacea, Tunicata, Polyzoa, Echinodermata, Actinozoa, Hydrozoa and Porifera. Report of the British Association for the Advancementof Science. 38: 247-336. [details]

basis of record Maldonado, M. (2002). Family Pachastrellidae Carter, 1875. Pp.141-162. In: Hooper, J.N.A., van Soest,R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A Guide to the Classification of Sponges (2 volumes). Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publ., New York. 1708+xvliii, ISBN 0-306-47260-0. [details] Available for editors

basis of record Topsent, E. (1894). Étude monographique des Spongiaires de France. I.Tetractinellida. Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale. (3) 2:259-400, pls XI-XVI.
page(s): 383 [details]

basis of record Maldonado, M. (2002[2004]). Family Pachastrellidae Carter, 1875. Pp.141-162. In: Hooper, J.N.A., van Soest,R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A Guide to the Classification of Sponges (2 volumes). Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publ., New York. 1708+xlviii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version). [details] Available for editors

additional source Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

additional source Van 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 source Cárdenas, P.; Xavier, J.R.; Reveillaud, J.; Schander, C.; Rapp, H.T. (2011). Molecular Phylogeny of the Astrophorida (Porifera, Demospongiaep) Reveals an Unexpected High Level of Spicule Homoplasy. PLoS ONE. 6 (4), e18318., available online at https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0018318 [details]

additional source Cárdenas, P.; Rapp, H.T. (2012). A review of Norwegian streptaster-bearing Astrophorida (Porifera: Demospongiae: Tetractinellida), new records and a new species. Zootaxa. 3253: 1-52., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2012/f/zt03253p053.pdf [details]