Porifera name details
Auletta elongata var. fruticosa Dendy, 1916
165450 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:165450)
unaccepted (junior synonym)
Variety
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Dendy, A. (1916). Report on the non-Calcareous Sponges collected by Mr. James Hornell at Okhamandal in Kattiawar in 1905-6. <em>Report to the Government of Baroda on the Marine Zoology of Okhamandal in Kattiawar.</em> 2: 93-146, pls I-IV.
page(s): 119 [details]
page(s): 119 [details]
Holotype BMNH 1920.12.9.31, geounit Western India
Holotype BMNH 1920.12.9.31, geounit Western India [details]
Status The variety was described by Dendy from Dwarka, W coast of India, approximate coordinates 22.2333°N 68.95°E, depth...
Status The variety was described by Dendy from Dwarka, W coast of India, approximate coordinates 22.2333°N 68.95°E, depth 27–32 m (wet holotype BMNH 1920.12.9.31). Dendy provided only very little information for his reason to erect this variety. The type specimen has a “much more spreading mode of branching” than the type specimen of the typical variety (cf. Dendy 1905: 195, pl. XII fig. 7 from the Gulf of Mannar, Sri Lanka, approximate coordinates 9°N 79°E, wet holotype BMNH 1907.2.1.86). It has “considerably smaller average size” of the spicules, but details are omitted. The habitus of the typical variety of Auletta elongata is not illustrated, but described as consisting of “seven elongated sub-cylindrical tubes, branching out from each other and from the short thick stem”. The spicules are described as “very variable in form and thickness”. Van Soest (2024: 51) did not believe the two varieties merit distinction at the species level, and proposed to consider the var. fruticosa as a junior synonym of A. elongata. Without discussing the status of the variety, Dendy himself (Dendy 1922: 121) confirmed this by adding the name of the present variety under Auletta elongata Dendy, 1905. [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. (2024). World Porifera Database. Auletta elongata var. fruticosa Dendy, 1916. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=165450 on 2024-11-20
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2005-07-10 18:05:41Z
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original description
Dendy, A. (1916). Report on the non-Calcareous Sponges collected by Mr. James Hornell at Okhamandal in Kattiawar in 1905-6. <em>Report to the Government of Baroda on the Marine Zoology of Okhamandal in Kattiawar.</em> 2: 93-146, pls I-IV.
page(s): 119 [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): 51 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 119 [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): 51 [details] Available for editors
[request]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype BMNH 1920.12.9.31, geounit Western India [details]
From editor or global species database
Status The variety was described by Dendy from Dwarka, W coast of India, approximate coordinates 22.2333°N 68.95°E, depth 27–32 m (wet holotype BMNH 1920.12.9.31). Dendy provided only very little information for his reason to erect this variety. The type specimen has a “much more spreading mode of branching” than the type specimen of the typical variety (cf. Dendy 1905: 195, pl. XII fig. 7 from the Gulf of Mannar, Sri Lanka, approximate coordinates 9°N 79°E, wet holotype BMNH 1907.2.1.86). It has “considerably smaller average size” of the spicules, but details are omitted. The habitus of the typical variety of Auletta elongata is not illustrated, but described as consisting of “seven elongated sub-cylindrical tubes, branching out from each other and from the short thick stem”. The spicules are described as “very variable in form and thickness”. Van Soest (2024: 51) did not believe the two varieties merit distinction at the species level, and proposed to consider the var. fruticosa as a junior synonym of A. elongata. Without discussing the status of the variety, Dendy himself (Dendy 1922: 121) confirmed this by adding the name of the present variety under Auletta elongata Dendy, 1905. [details]
