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Spirastrellidae Ridley & Dendy, 1886 
AphiaID: 131674

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Hadromerida (Order)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Family
Parent Hadromerida
Sources  original description: Ridley, S.O.; Dendy, A. 1886. Preliminary Report on the Monaxonida collected by H.M.S. ‘Challenger’. Annals and Magazine of Natural History(5) 18: 325-351, 470-493. [details] [full text]

basis of record: Rützler, K. 2002. Family Spirastrellidae Ridley & Dendy, 1886. Pp. 220-223. In Hooper, J. N. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (ed.) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 1 (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow). [details]

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]

Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Genus Diplastrella Topsent, 1918
Genus Spirastrella Schmidt, 1868

Genus Chondrillina de Laubenfels, 1936 accepted as Spirastrella Schmidt, 1868
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131674
Taxonomic
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Spirastrellidae. 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=131674 on 2013-05-20
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