Dragmacidon lunaecharta
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| image = Esponja marina (Dragmacidon lunaecharta), parque nacional Ras Muhammad, Egipto, 2022-03-28, DD 101.jpg
| taxon = Dragmacidon lunaecharta
| authority = (Ridley & Dendy, 1886)
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- Axinella lunaecharta Ridley & Dendy, 1886
- Pseudaxinella lunaecharta (Ridley & Dendy, 1886)
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Dragmacidon lunaecharta, also known as the red ball sponge or red boring sponge, is a species of sea sponge found in the western Atlantic Ocean. It feeds on plankton. These sponges do not attach themselves to rocks or the sea floor but drift in water currents. Its main predators are sea slugs. It has been kept in home aquariums.{{Citation needed|date=September 2020}}
Taxonomy
It was first described in 1886 by Stuart Oliver Ridley and Arthur Dendy as Axinella lunaecharta,{{Cite web|title=WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Dragmacidon lunaecharta (Ridley & Dendy, 1886)|url=https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=165552|access-date=2020-09-23|website=www.marinespecies.org}}{{Cite journal|last=Ridley, S.O & Dendy, A.|date=1886|title=Preliminary report on the Monaxonida collected by H.M.S. Challenger. Part I|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15619238|journal=Annals and Magazine of Natural History|volume=18|pages=325–351, 470–493|doi=10.1080/00222938609459982 }} but in 1887, in their final report, they transferred it to the genus, Pseudaxinella.{{Cite journal|last=Ridley, S.O. & Dendy, A|date=1887|title=Report on the Monaxonida collected by H.M.S. 'Challenger' during the years 1873-76. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76|url=https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=sourceget&id=8096|journal=Zoology|volume=20|issue=59|pages=i-lxviii, 1-275, pl. 1-51, 1 map}} In 1917, E.F. Hallman revised some genera in the family, Axinellidae, and transferred it to the genus, Dragmacidon.{{Cite journal|last=Hallmann, E.F.|date=1917|title=A revision of the genera with microscleres included, or provisionally included, in the family Axinellidae; with descriptions of some Australian species. Part III.|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3349980|journal=Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales|volume=41|issue=164|pages=634–675, pls XXIX, figs 3, 5, 6; XXXIII, fig. 6; XXXVIII, figs 5–9|doi=10.5962/bhl.part.15326 |doi-access=free}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6018282 Plate XXXVII Axinella lunaecharta]
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Category:Taxa named by Arthur Dendy
Category:Taxa named by Stuart Oliver Ridley
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