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'''''Agelas dispar''''' is a [[species]] of [[demosponge]] in the family [[Agelasidae]]. It lives on [[reef]]s in the [[Caribbean Sea]]. |
'''''Agelas dispar''''' is a [[species]] of [[demosponge]] in the family [[Agelasidae]]. It lives on [[reef]]s in the [[Caribbean Sea]]. |
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==Taxonomy== |
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''Agelas dispar'' is the [[type species]] of the [[genus]] and was first described in 1864 by the French naturalist [[Édouard Placide Duchassaing de Fontbressin]] and the Italian naturalist [[Giovanni Michelotti (naturalist)|Giovanni Michelotti]]. They deposited the [[holotype]] in Amsterdam. In 1932, the zoologists M. Burton and H.S. Rao, unaware that the holotype was still in existence, deposited a [[neotype]] in the Natural History Museum in London, but this specimen has since disappeared.<ref name=Wiedenmayer>{{cite book|author=F. Wiedenmayer|title=Shallow-water sponges of the western Bahamas |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_GP0BwAAQBAJ&pg=PA128 |year=2013 |publisher=Birkhäuser |isbn=978-3-0348-5797-0 |pages=128–129}}</ref> |
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==Description== |
==Description== |
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Agelas dispar is a species of demosponge in the family Agelasidae. It lives on reefs in the Caribbean Sea.
Taxonomy
Agelas dispar is the type species of the genus and was first described in 1864 by the French naturalist Édouard Placide Duchassaing de Fontbressin and the Italian naturalist Giovanni Michelotti. They deposited the holotype in Amsterdam. In 1932, the zoologists M. Burton and H.S. Rao, unaware that the holotype was still in existence, deposited a neotype in the Natural History Museum in London, but this specimen has since disappeared.[2]
Description
Agelas dispar forms irregularly-shaped patches that may be as much as 30 cm (12 in) across. The surface is smooth with many exhalent pores of irregular shape and size, often in shallow pits. The colour is pinkish-brown.[3]
References
- ^ a b van Soest, Rob (2012). Van Soest RW, Boury-Esnault N, Hooper JN, Rützler K, de Voogd NJ, de Glasby BA, Hajdu E, Pisera AB, Manconi R, Schoenberg C, Janussen D, Tabachnick KR, Klautau M, Picton B, Kelly M, Vacelet J (eds.). "Agelas dispar Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864". World Porifera database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 18 April 2018.
- ^ F. Wiedenmayer (2013). Shallow-water sponges of the western Bahamas. Birkhäuser. pp. 128–129. ISBN 978-3-0348-5797-0.
- ^ "Agelas dispar (Duchassaing 1864)". Coralpedia. University of Warwick. Retrieved 18 April 2018.