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Samus Gray, 1867 
AphiaID: 132094

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Spirophorida (Order) > Samidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Parent Samidae Sollas, 1888
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: Van Soest, R.W.M.; Hooper, J.N.A. (2002). Family Samidae Sollas, 1886, in: Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (Ed.) (2002). Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of sponges. pp. 99-101 (look up in IMIS) [details]

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[show all]		 Species Samus anonymus Gray, 1867

Subgenus Samus (Pachastrella) Carter, 1880 accepted as Triptolemma de Laubenfels, 1955
  » Species Samus (Pachastrella) parasiticus Carter, 1880 accepted as Triptolemma intextum (Carter, 1876)
Species Samus anonyma Gray, 1867 accepted as Samus anonymus Gray, 1867
Species Samus complicatus Carter, 1880 accepted as Theonella complicata (Carter, 1880)
Species Samus parasiticus Carter, 1880 accepted as Triptolemma intextum (Carter, 1876)
Species Samus simplex Carter, 1880 accepted as Dercitus (Stoeba) simplex (Carter, 1880)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Link To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:132094
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  db_admin
2005-09-03 12:24:27Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2005-11-16 13:28:14Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Samus 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=132094 on 2013-05-25
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