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Sycon abyssale Borojevic & Graat-Kleeton, 1965

132247  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:132247)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Porifera (Phylum)
  4. Calcarea (Class)
  5. Calcaronea (Subclass)
  6. Leucosolenida (Order)
  7. Syconidae (Family)
  8. Sycon (Genus)
  9. Sycon abyssale (Species)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Borojevic, R.; Graat-Kleeton, G. (1965). Sur une nouvelle espèce de <i>Sycon</i> et quelques Démosponges récoltés par le 'Cirrus' dans l'Atlantique Nord. <em>Beaufortia.</em> 13: 154-81. [details] OpenAccess publication
Holotype  ZMA Por. 02501, geounit Arctic Lower Bathyal...  
Holotype ZMA Por. 02501, geounit Arctic Lower Bathyal Province [details]
Depth range Despite Borojevic & Graat-Kleeton's name 'abyssale' it is so far not proven that the species occurs at abyssal depth,...  
Depth range Despite Borojevic & Graat-Kleeton's name 'abyssale' it is so far not proven that the species occurs at abyssal depth, because the depth data provided by the collectors of the type material were given as '2800-4000 cable meters' which do not give a precise depth. At the geographic coordinates provided by the authors/collectors, 62°N 33°W, the depth given by Google Earth is 2904 m, well above the limit of Abyssal depth in the sense of Watling et al. 2013 (3501 m). Records provided of the species by other authors so far also were of Lower Bathyal range, not abyssal. [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. Sycon abyssale Borojevic & Graat-Kleeton, 1965. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=132247 on 2025-04-29
Date
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
created
van Soest, Rob W.M.

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Nomenclature

original description Borojevic, R.; Graat-Kleeton, G. (1965). Sur une nouvelle espèce de <i>Sycon</i> et quelques Démosponges récoltés par le 'Cirrus' dans l'Atlantique Nord. <em>Beaufortia.</em> 13: 154-81. [details] OpenAccess publication

Other

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

additional source Van Soest, R.W.M. (2001). Porifera, <b><i>in</i></b>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification</i>. <em>Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 85-103. (look up in IMIS) [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Rapp, H.T. (2015). A monograph of the calcareous sponges (Porifera, Calcarea) of Greenland. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 95 (7), 1395-1459., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315413001070
page(s): 1416 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Barthel, D.; Tendal, O.S. (1993). The sponge association of the abyssal Norwegian-Greenland Sea: species composition, substrate relationships and distribution. <em>Sarsia.</em> 78: 83-96.
page(s): 92 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Holotype ZMA Por. 02501, geounit Arctic Lower Bathyal Province [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range Despite Borojevic & Graat-Kleeton's name 'abyssale' it is so far not proven that the species occurs at abyssal depth, because the depth data provided by the collectors of the type material were given as '2800-4000 cable meters' which do not give a precise depth. At the geographic coordinates provided by the authors/collectors, 62°N 33°W, the depth given by Google Earth is 2904 m, well above the limit of Abyssal depth in the sense of Watling et al. 2013 (3501 m). Records provided of the species by other authors so far also were of Lower Bathyal range, not abyssal. [details]
    Definitions

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To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Sycon abyssale) 
To GenBank (13 nucleotides; 0 proteins) 
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