Antarctic Invertebrates: Myxilla (Ectyomyxilla) chilensis

3 individual specimens found for Myxilla (Ectyomyxilla) chilensis.

Myxilla (Ectyomyxilla) chilensis Thiele, 1905 Species

“Myxilla chilensis, Thiele (Plate LIV, fig. 10).

M. chilensis, Thiele, 1905, p. 443, figs. 22, 62.

Occurrence. St. 58: Falkland Islands, 0-5 m.

REMARKS. The single example is growing in intimate association with an alga, the

sponge tissues forming a thin coating on the branches of the alga. The skeleton is quite

typical except that the acanthostyli are smaller than those of the holotype and are more

tapering at the distal end, resembling more the acanthostyli of Hymedesmia laevis,

Thiele (loc. cit., pl. xxxi, fig. 69 b).

DISTRIBUTION. Chile.”

(Kirkpatrick, 1907: 311)

Chile

Catalog No.	Date Collected	Location	Coordinates	Depth (m)	Vessel
43704	2/10/1965	South Pacific Ocean	54.53° S, 159.03° E	86 – 101	Eltanin R/V
43705	2/15/1967	South Pacific Ocean	54.53° S, 158.98° E	112 – 124	Eltanin R/V
43706		Indian Ocean	53.07° S, 72.97° E	210 – 234	Eltanin R/V