Invertebrate Zoology PORb-19: Desmacella vagabunda

Off American Shoal
Atlantic Ocean: Atlantic, Western Central: United States: Florida
May 6, 1868
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Identifications

Desmacella vagabunda Schmidt, 1870

Animalia Porifera Demospongiae Poecilosclerida Mycalina Desmacellidae Desmacella vagabunda

Identified by Edward Oskar Schmidt in 1870
Nature of ID: type ID

Citations

Schmidt 1870, Page 53, Syntype of Desmacella vagabunda

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Media Details
Grundzüge einer Spongien-Fauna des atlantischen Gebietes

Locality and Collecting Event Details

Continent/Ocean:	Atlantic Ocean
Country:	United States
State/Province:	Florida
Specific Locality:	Off American Shoal
Collecting Source:	wild caught
Depth:	98 fms
Coordinates:	24° 26´ 40´´ N 81° 18´ 30´´ W (Datum: unknown)
	[no agent data]; 1868-05-06; Source: Lists of Dredging Stations in North American Water from 1867-1887 by Sanderson Smith
Collecting Date:	May 6, 1868

Collectors

US Coast Survey, 1867-1871

Louis F. Pourtales

Steamer Bibb

Identifiers

other number: PORa-8194

station number: Cast No. 7

Part Details

Part Name	Condition	Disposition	#	Remarks
fragment (70% ethanol)	poor	in collection	ca.10

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