Tedania (Tedaniopsis) charcoti Topsent 1907

• Main Authors: Schejter, Laura, Cristobo, Javier, Ríos, Pilar
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2024
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Porifera; Demospongiae; Poecilosclerida; Coelosphaeridae; Tedania; Tedania charcoti; Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctica; South Orkney Islands
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10562187; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D687FDC51B8248FF45F9376A66BEA9

Tedania (Tedaniopsis) charcoti Topsent, 1907 (Figure 8f) Restricted synonymy: Tedania charcoti Topsent, 1907. Material examined: 1 specimen collected in station 4 (SOI; 60°55' S, 44°04'W; 256 m; 2/3/2014; MACN-In 44398). Description: Massive sponge, red/brownish (Figure 8f). Surface uneven and porous. Spicules are styles 380– 530 µm by 20 µm, anisotornotes of 220–300 µm by 5 µm and onychaetes of 105–285 µm. Remarks: This is a common species, widely distributed in Antarctic and sub Antarctic waters (e.g. Desqueyroux-Faúndez 1989; Ríos et al. 2004; Goodwin et al. 2019; Schejter et al. 2006, Bertolino et al. 2007; Fernández et al. 2021). See Ríos (2006) for a complete description. It was previously recorded from the SOI by Burton (1940). Published as part of Schejter, Laura, Cristobo, Javier & Ríos, Pilar, 2024, New records of demosponges (Porifera) from the South Orkney Islands (Antarctica) with a checklist for the region, pp. 401-430 in Zootaxa 5403 (4) on page 417, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5403.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10562154