MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Sphaerotylus capitatus (Vosmaer, 1885)

Deep-Sea taxon details

Sphaerotylus capitatus (Vosmaer, 1885)

AphiaID

170682 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:170682)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Sphaerotylus Topsent, 1898

Original name

Polymastia capitata Vosmaer, 1885

Synonymised names

Sphaerotylus schoenus (Sollas, 1882) · unaccepted (nomen nudum)

Environment

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

Original description

(of ) Vosmaer, G.C.J. (1885). The Sponges of the 'Willem Barents' Expedition 1880 and 1881. Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde. 12 (3): 1-47, pls I-V.
page(s): 16 [details]

Descriptive notes

Taxonomic remark All specimens from Southern hemisphere have to be allocated to Sphaerotylus vanhoffeni

Taxonomic remark All specimens from Southern hemisphere have to be allocated to Sphaerotylus vanhoffeni [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. Sphaerotylus capitatus (Vosmaer, 1885). 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=170682 on 2025-06-01

Thematic species database citation

Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Sphaerotylus capitatus (Vosmaer, 1885). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/DeepSea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=170682 on 2025-06-01

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-07-10 18:05:41Z

created

db_admin

2005-07-14 06:54:12Z

changed

Amelinckx, Simon

2006-08-24 18:36:26Z

checked

van Soest, Rob W.M.

[taxonomic tree]

original description (of ) Vosmaer, G.C.J. (1885). The Sponges of the 'Willem Barents' Expedition 1880 and 1881. Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde. 12 (3): 1-47, pls I-V.
page(s): 16 [details]

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

basis of record Boury-Esnault, N. (2002 [2004]). Family Polymastiidae Gray, 1867. Pp. 201-219. 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 Publishers: New York, 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5. [details] Available for editors

basis of record Boury-Esnault, N. (2002). Family Polymastiidae Gray, 1867. Pp. 201-219. 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 Publishers: New York, 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version).
page(s): 206-207 [details] Available for editors

additional source Plotkin, A.; Morrow, C.; Gerasimova, E.; Rapp, H.T. (2017). Polymastiidae (Demospongiae: Hadromerida) with ornamented exotyles: a review of morphological affinities and description of a new genus and three new species. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 97 (6): 1351–1406., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025315416000655
page(s): 1367-1371 [details] Available for editors

additional source Plotkin, A.; Gerasimova, E.; Rapp, H.T. (2018). Polymastiidae (Porifera: Demospongiae) of the Nordic and Siberian Seas. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 98 (6), 1273–1335., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315417000285
page(s): 37-39 [details] Available for editors

additional source Clarke, Andrew; Johnston, Nadine M. (2003). Antarctic marine benthic diversity. Oceanography and Marine Biology: an Annual Review. 41: 47-114. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

additional source Boury-Esnault, N.; Van Beveren, M. (1982). Les Démosponges du plateau continental de Kerguelen-Heard. Comité national français des recherches antarctiques. 52: 1-175.
page(s): 39; note: Misapplication [details]

additional source Kirkpatrick, R. (1908). Porifera (Sponges). II. Tetraxonida, Dendy. National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1904 Natural History. 4, Zoology: 1-56, pls VIII-XXVI.
page(s): 18-19; note: Misapplication [details]

additional source Uriz, M.J. (1988). Deep-water sponges from the continental shelf and slope off Namibia (Southwest Africa): Classses Hexactinellida and Demospongia. Monografías de Zoología Marina. 3: 9-157.
page(s): 43; note: Misapplication [details] Available for editors