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Levinella Borojevic & Boury-Esnault, 1986 
AphiaID: 131737

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Calcarea (Class) > Calcinea (Subclass) > Clathrinida (Order) > Levinellidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Levinella thalassae Borojevic & Boury-Esnault, 1986 (type by original designation)
Parent Levinellidae Borojevic & Boury-Esnault, 1986
Sources  original description: Borojevic, R.; Boury-Esnault, N. 1986. Une nouvelle voie d’évolution chez les éponges Calcinea: description des genres Burtonulla n. g. et Levinella n. g. Bulletin du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (4, A) 8(3): 443-455. [details]

basis of record: Borojevic, R.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Manuel, M.; Vacelet, J. 2002. Order Clathrinida Hartman, 1958. Pp. 1141-1152. In Hooper, J. N. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (ed.) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 2 (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers, New York). (look up in IMIS) [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]		 Species Levinella prolifera (Dendy, 1913)
Species Levinella thalassae Borojevic & Boury-Esnault, 1986
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131737
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van Soest, Rob
2009-09-16 11:15:52Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Levinella Borojevic & Boury-Esnault, 1986. 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=131737 on 2013-06-19
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