WoRMS taxon details
Polymastia andrica de Laubenfels, 1949
157415 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:157415)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
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): 22-23 [details]
page(s): 22-23 [details]
Type locality contained in Gulf of St. Lawrence - Eastern Scotian Shelf
type locality contained in Gulf of St. Lawrence - Eastern Scotian Shelf [details]
Taxonomic remark Laubenfels wrote in his paper of 1953 (p. 14) "The present specimen is unlike typical andrica in the fact that its larger...
Distribution Prince Edward Island (from the northern tip of Miscou Island, N.B. to Cape Breton Island south of Cheticamp, including the...
Taxonomic remark Laubenfels wrote in his paper of 1953 (p. 14) "The present specimen is unlike typical andrica in the fact that its larger spicules are styles rather than tylostyles, but I hesitate to erect any more names in this rather crowded genus." The identification of this specimen is perhpas doubtful. [details]
Distribution Prince Edward Island (from the northern tip of Miscou Island, N.B. to Cape Breton Island south of Cheticamp, including the...
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), western slope of Newfoundland , including the southern part of the Strait of Belle Isle but excluding the upper 50 m in the area southwest of Newfoundland, Laurentian Channel (bathyal zone) to the northeast of Anticosti Island (=Jacques Cartier Strait), and the Laurentian channel (bathyal zone)(= Honguedo) [details]
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. Polymastia andrica de Laubenfels, 1949. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=157415 on 2025-04-06
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Nomenclature
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.
page(s): 22-23 [details]
basis of record Plotkin, A.; Gerasimova, E.; Rapp, H.T. (2018). Polymastiidae (Porifera: Demospongiae) of the Nordic and Siberian Seas. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 98 (6), 1273–1335., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315417000285
page(s): 1276-1279 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 22-23 [details]
basis of record Plotkin, A.; Gerasimova, E.; Rapp, H.T. (2018). Polymastiidae (Porifera: Demospongiae) of the Nordic and Siberian Seas. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 98 (6), 1273–1335., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315417000285
page(s): 1276-1279 [details] Available for editors
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additional source
Dinn, C.; Leys, S.P. (2018). Field Guide to sponges of Eastern Canadian Arctic. <em>Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton AB, T6G 2E9.</em> 1-102.
page(s): 68 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1953). Sponges of the Alaskan Arctic. <em>Smithosnian Miscellaneous Collection.</em> 121 (6): 1-22.
page(s): 14-15 [details]
additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
additional source Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (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]
page(s): 68 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1953). Sponges of the Alaskan Arctic. <em>Smithosnian Miscellaneous Collection.</em> 121 (6): 1-22.
page(s): 14-15 [details]
additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
additional source Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (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
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Taxonomic remark Laubenfels wrote in his paper of 1953 (p. 14) "The present specimen is unlike typical andrica in the fact that its larger spicules are styles rather than tylostyles, but I hesitate to erect any more names in this rather crowded genus." The identification of this specimen is perhpas doubtful. [details]Unreviewed
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), western slope of Newfoundland , including the southern part of the Strait of Belle Isle but excluding the upper 50 m in the area southwest of Newfoundland, Laurentian Channel (bathyal zone) to the northeast of Anticosti Island (=Jacques Cartier Strait), and the Laurentian channel (bathyal zone)(= Honguedo) [details]
