Calcareous sponges of the Western Indian Ocean and Red Sea
Author
Van, Rob W. M.
Author
De, Nicole J.
text
Zootaxa
2018
2018-06-01
4426
1
1
160
journal article
29979
10.11646/zootaxa.4426.1.1
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1175-5326
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Sycon elegans
sensu
Borojević 1967
Borojević (1967: 201)
reported this
North
Atlantic species (cf.
Bowerbank, 1864
) from the Durban coast, admitting that this was the southernmost occurrence of the species. Simultaneously he referred Burton’s (1933) record of
West
Pacific
Sycon gelatinosum
(
Blainville, 1834
)
and East African
Sycon tabulatum
(
Schuffner, 1877
)
to the very similar
S. elegans
. As we pointed out above,
Sycon tabulatum
appears the more likely identity for this record, as
S. elegans
and
S. gelatinosum
have their
type
localities at a great distance from East Africa.