WoRMS taxon details
Euplectella Owen, 1841
AphiaID: 132114
AphiaID: 132114
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Hexactinellida (Class) > Hexasterophora (Subclass) > Lyssacinosida (Order) > Euplectellidae (Family) > Euplectellinae (Subfamily) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | |||||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Euplectella aspergillum Owen, 1841 (type by monotypy) | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Euplectellinae Gray, 1867 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Owen, R. 1841. Description of a New Genus and Species of Sponge (Euplectella aspergillum). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 9: 3-5. [details] [full text]
basis of record: Tabachnick, K. 2002. Family Euplectellidae Gray, 1867. Pp. 1388-1434. 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, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow). [details] additional source: Reiswig, H. (2009). Hexactinellida (Porifera). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [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 Euplectella aspera Schulze, 1896 Species Euplectella aspergillum Owen, 1841 Species Euplectella crassistellata Schulze, 1886 Species Euplectella cucumer Owen, 1857 Species Euplectella curvistellata Ijima, 1901 Species Euplectella gibbsa Tabachnick & Collins, 2008 Species Euplectella imperialis Ijima, 1894 Species Euplectella jovis Schmidt, 1880 Species Euplectella marshalli Ijima, 1895 Species Euplectella nobilis Schulze, 1904 Species Euplectella nodosa Schulze, 1886 Species Euplectella oweni Herklots & Marshall, 1868 Species Euplectella paratetractina Tabachnick, Janussen & Menschenina, 2008 Species Euplectella plumosum Tabachnick & Levi, 2004 Species Euplectella simplex Schulze, 1896 Species Euplectella suberea Thomson, 1877 Species Euplectella timorensis Ijima, 1927 Species Euplectella brevis Bowerbank, 1861 accepted as Quasillina brevis (Bowerbank, 1861) Species Euplectella mammillaris (Mueller, 1806) accepted as Polymastia penicillus (Montagu, 1818) Species Euplectella regalis Schulze, 1900 accepted as Euplectella aspergillum regalis Schulze, 1900 Species Euplectella robusta Bowerbank, 1861 accepted as Polymastia boletiformis (Lamarck, 1815) | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Note |
Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details] | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:132114 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Euplectella Owen, 1841. 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=132114 on 2013-05-19 | ||||||||||||||
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