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Alebion Gray, 1867 
AphiaID: 131858

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Poecilosclerida (Order) > Microcionina (Suborder) > Acarnidae (Family)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (preoccupied)
Record
status
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Accepted name  Iophon Gray, 1867
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Alebion proximum Ridley, 1881 (type by original designation)
Parent Acarnidae Dendy, 1922
Sources  original description: Gray, J.E. 1867a. Notes on the Arrangement of Sponges, with the Descriptions of some New Genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867(2): 492-558, pls XXVII-XXVIII. [details] [full text]

basis of record: Hooper, J.N.A. 2002. Family Acarnidae Dendy, 1922. Pp. 412-431. In Hooper, J. N. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (ed.) Systema Porifera. 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]

additional source: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details]

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Species Alebion piceum Vosmaer, 1882 accepted as Iophon piceum (Vosmaer, 1882)
Species Alebion proximum Ridley, 1881 accepted as Iophon proximum (Ridley, 1881)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Link To ITIS
Notes  Preoccupied by Alebion Krøyer, 1863 (Crustacea). [details]

Homonymy: Also in database as valid genus in Euryphoridae (Copepoda) - needs checking [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131858
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van Soest, Rob
2005-08-01 12:12:31Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2006-01-23 18:44:39Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
2008-11-09 12:33:14Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Alebion Gray, 1867. 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=131858 on 2013-05-23
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