Sycon oscari, Van & De, 2018

Van, Rob W. M. & De, Nicole J., 2018, Calcareous sponges of the Western Indian Ocean and Red Sea, Zootaxa 4426 (1), pp. 1-160 : 150

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4426.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:18929E20-5296-4458-8A8A-4F5316A290FD

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5966818

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/386CC616-DCE7-A5A4-FF67-8C2AFD32FA39

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Plazi

scientific name

Sycon oscari
status

 

Sycandra tabulata Schuffner, 1877

Schuffner (1877: 422, pl. 25 fig. 11) described this Sycon species from Mauritius, comparing it with Sycon elegans (Bowerbank, 1845) . Its skeleton is distinct only by the thick bushes of thin fusiforms diactines (140 x 4 µm) in the distal cones of the radial tubes. Borojević (1967) in turn compared his record of Sycon elegans from South Africa with Schuffner’s species. Since S. elegans is a Northeast Atlantic species, this may be interpreted as a suggestion that the South African record may indeed be better assigned to Sycon tabulatum . Schuffner’s combination is preoccupied: it is a junior primary homonym of Sycandra tabulata Haeckel, 1872 . Dendy & Row (1913) noticed this already, but assumed both homonyms belonged to Sycon elegans . In view of the fact that Bowerbank's and Haeckel's specimens were from the Mediterranean, while Schuffner's was from Mauritius this synonymy is judged to be unlikely. We propose here to rename Schuffner’s species as Sycon oscari nom.nov. The name is given to honor Oscar Schuffner, the author of its original name.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Porifera

Class

Calcarea

Order

Leucosolenida

Family

Sycettidae

Genus

Sycon

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