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Heteropiidae Dendy, 1893 
AphiaID: 131615

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Calcarea (Class) > Calcaronea (Subclass) > Leucosolenida (Order)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Family
Parent Leucosolenida
Synonymised
taxa
  Djeddeidae De Laubenfels, 1936 (junior synonym)
Sources  original description: Dendy, A. 1892a. Synopsis of the Australian Calcarea Heterocoela; with a proposed Classification of the Group and Descriptions of some New Genera and Species. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria (New Series) 5: 69-116. [details] [full text]

additional source: Van Soest, R.W.M. 2001. Porifera, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 85-103 (look up in IMIS[details]

original description (from synonym): Laubenfels, M.W. De 1936a. A Discussion of the Sponge Fauna of the Dry Tortugas in Particular and the West Indies in General, with Material for a Revision of the Families and Orders of the Porifera. Carnegie Institute of Washington (Tortugas Laboratory Paper N° 467) 30: 1-225, pls 1-22. [details] [view taxon]

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 Genus Grantessa Lendenfeld, 1885
Genus Grantilla Row, 1909
Genus Heteropia Carter, 1886
Genus Paraheteropia Borojevic, 1965
Genus Sycettusa Haeckel, 1872
Genus Syconessa Borojevic, Boury-Esnault & Vacelet, 2000
Genus Vosmaeropsis Dendy, 1893
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131615
Taxonomic
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van Soest, Rob
2010-08-29 18:23:31Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Heteropiidae. In: Van Soest, R.W.M; Boury-Esnault, N.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Rützler, K.; de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez de Glasby, B.; Hajdu, E.; Pisera, A.B.; Manconi, R.; Schoenberg, C.; Janussen, D.; Tabachnick, K.R., Klautau, M.; Picton, B.; Kelly, M.; Vacelet, J.; Dohrmann, M.; Cristina Díaz, M. (2013) World Porifera database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=131615 on 2013-06-19
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