Cyamon agnani

Taxonavigation[edit]

Taxonavigation: Axinellida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Parazoa Phylum: Porifera Classis: Demospongiae Subclassis: Heteroscleromorpha Ordo: Axinellida

Familia: Raspailiidae
Subfamilia: Cyamoninae
Genus: Cyamon
Species: Cyamon agnani

Holotype: MNHN NBE 947, preserved in alcohol.

Type locality: Brazil, NE coast, Calypso stat. 97, 21.1667°S, 40.7°W, 12 m depth.

Hymeraphia sp. Carter 1876: 391; Higgin 1877: 296, pl. 14 fig. 9 (Grenada)
Microciona quadriradiata Carter, 1880: 42 (in part, only what was illustrated in Higgin 1877).
Trikentrion wickersi (sic) Topsent 1889: 4, fig. 2A (Campeche Bank, Gulf of Mexico); Topsent 1894: 35 (corrected to Trikentrion vickersi).
Cyamon vickersi de Laubenfels 1936: 80 (Florida); Little 1963: 48 (Gulf of Mexico); Mothes et al. 2004: 6 (Brazil).
Cyamon vickersi var. toxifera Arndt 1927: 149, pl. 2 fig. 9, text figure 10 (Curaçao) = mixture of Cyamon agnani and Clathria (Microciona) ferrea (de Laubenfels, 1936 as Fisherispongia).
Cyamon toxifera de Laubenfels 1936: 80.
Timea agnani Boury-Esnault 1973: 276, fig. 24 (N.E. Brazil).
Not: Dictyocylindrus vickersii Bowerbank 1864; Carter 1879 = Cyamon vickersii.
Nec: Microciona quadriradiata Carter 1880: 42 (in part: Gulf of Manaar specimen).
Nec: Cyamon vickersi de Laubenfels 1950 (Bermuda) = Timea sp.
Cyamon agnani van Soest, Carballo & Hooper, 2012: figs. 7A–D, 8A–F

Boury-Esnault N., 1973: Résultats Scientifiques des Campagnes de la ‘Calypso’. Campagne de la ‘Calypso’ au large des côtes atlantiques de l’Amérique du Sud (1961–1962), I, 29. Spongiaires. Annales de l’Institut océanographique, 49 (Supplement 10): 263–295.

van Soest, Rob W.M., José L. Carballo & John N.A. Hooper, 2012: Polyaxone monaxonids: revision of raspailiid sponges with polyactine megascleres (Cyamon and Trikentrion). ZooKeys, 239: 1–70. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.239.3734.