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Halisarca Johnston, 1842 
AphiaID: 131822

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Chondrosida (Order) > Halisarcidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Halisarca dujardinii Johnston, 1842 (type by monotypy)
Parent Halisarcidae Schmidt, 1862
Synonymised
taxa
  Bajalus Lendenfeld, 1885 (junior synonym)
Sources  original description: Johnston, G. 1842. A History of British Sponges and Lithophytes.(W.H. Lizars: Edinburgh): i-xii, 1-264, pls I-XXV. [details] [full text]

basis of record: Bergquist, P.R.; Cook, S.D.C. (2002). Family Halisarcidae Schmidt, 1862, in: Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (Ed.) (2002). Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of sponges. pp. 1078-1080 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp. (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]

additional source: Dujardin, F. 1838. Observations sur les éponges et en particulier sur la Spongille ou Éponge d’eau douce. Annales des Sciences Naturelles (2) 10: 5-13, pl. 1. [details] [full text]

from synonym: Hooper, J.N.A. & F. Wiedenmayer (1994). Porifera. In Wells, A. (ed.) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Volume 12. Melbourne, CSIRO, available online at http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/fauna/afd/taxa/PORIFERA/checklist#selected [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Lendenfeld, R. Von 1886a [1885]. A monograph of the Australian sponges. Part IV. Preliminary report on the Australian Myxospongiae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 10: 3-22, pl.s 1-5. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

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taxa

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 Species Halisarca ascidiarum Carter, 1886
Species Halisarca australiensis Carter, 1885
Species Halisarca bassangustiarum Carter, 1881
Species Halisarca caerulea Vacelet & Donadey, 1987
Species Halisarca cerebrum Bergquist & Kelly, 2004
Species Halisarca dujardinii Johnston, 1842
Species Halisarca ectofibrosa Vacelet, Vasseur & Lévi, 1976
Species Halisarca ferreus Bergquist & Kelly, 2004
Species Halisarca harmelini Ereskovsky, Lavrov, Boury-Esnault & Vacelet, 2011
Species Halisarca korotkovae Ereskovsky, 2007
Species Halisarca laxus (Lendenfeld, 1889)
Species Halisarca magellanica Topsent, 1901
Species Halisarca melana de Laubenfels, 1954
Species Halisarca metabola de Laubenfels, 1954
Species Halisarca metschnikovi Lévi, 1953
Species Halisarca nahantensis Chen, 1976
Species Halisarca pachyderma Lévi, 1969
Species Halisarca purpura Little, 1963
Species Halisarca rubitingens Carter, 1881
Species Halisarca sacra de Laubenfels, 1930
Species Halisarca tesselata Carter, 1886

Species Halisarca guttula Schmidt, 1864 (species inquirenda)

Species Halisarca cruenta Carter, 1881 accepted as Oscarella cruenta (Carter, 1881)
Species Halisarca fschultzii Merejkowsky, 1878 accepted as Halisarca dujardinii Johnston, 1842
Species Halisarca lobularis Schmidt, 1862 accepted as Oscarella lobularis (Schmidt, 1862)
Species Halisarca mimosa Barrois, 1876 accepted as Oscarella lobularis (Schmidt, 1862)
Species Halisarca reticulata Carter, 1886 accepted as Chondrosia reticulata (Carter, 1886)
Species Halisarca rubra Hanitsch, 1890 accepted as Oscarella rubra (Hanitsch, 1890)
Species Halisarca sputum Topsent, 1893 accepted as Halisarca dujardinii Johnston, 1842
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Tuléar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Links To GenBank
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Note  Halisarca was first erected by Dujardin, 1838, as the Systema Porifera chapter indicates, but Dujardin did not mention a species name and thus the name is a nomen nudum. Johnston, 1842, subsequently described Halisarca dujardini and made the genus name Halisarca available. Authorship and year for Halisarca is Johnston, 1842 according to the rules of the ICZN. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131822
Taxonomic
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Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van Soest, Rob
2010-02-12 09:19:42Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Halisarca Johnston, 1842. 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=131822 on 2013-05-24
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