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Mycale (Oxymycale) Hentschel, 1929 
AphiaID: 132137

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Poecilosclerida (Order) > Mycalina (Suborder) > Mycalidae (Family) > Mycale (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Subgenus
Typetaxon Esperia intermedia Schmidt, 1874 (type by original designation)
Parent Mycale Gray, 1867
Synonymised
taxa		  Oxymycale Hentschel, 1929 (subgenus transfer)
Sources  original description: Hentschel, E. 1929. Die Kiesel- und Hornschwämme des Nördlichen Eismeers. Pp. 857-1042, pls XII-XIV. In: Römer, F., Schaudinn, F., Brauer, A. & Arndt, W. (Eds), Fauna Arctica. Eine Zusammenstellung der arktischen Tierformen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des Spitzbergen-Gebietes auf Grund der Ergebnisse der Deutschen Expedition in das Nördliche Eismeer im Jahre 1898. 5 (4) (G.Fischer, Jena). [details]

basis of record: Van Soest, R.W.M.; Hajdu, E. 2002. Family Mycalidae Lundbeck, 1905. Pp. 669-690. In Hooper, J. N. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (ed.) Systema Porifera. A 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: Clarke, A.; Johnston, N.M. (2003). Antarctic marine benthic diversity. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 41: 47-114 (look up in IMIS) [details]

Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Species Mycale (Oxymycale) acerata Kirkpatrick, 1907
Species Mycale (Oxymycale) intermedia (Schmidt, 1874)
Species Mycale (Oxymycale) koreana Sim, 1982
Species Mycale (Oxymycale) paradoxa (de Laubenfels, 1935)
Species Mycale (Oxymycale) renieroides (Schmidt, 1870)
Species Mycale (Oxymycale) rhoi (Sim & Lee, 1998)
Species Mycale (Oxymycale) stecarmia (de Laubenfels, 1954)
Species Mycale (Oxymycale) stephensae Samaai & Gibbons, 2005

Species Mycale (Oxymycale) thaumatochela Lundbeck, 1905 accepted as Mycale (Naviculina) thaumatochela Lundbeck, 1905
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Link To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:132137
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van Soest, Rob
2005-07-15 06:59:14Z  changed  Espinel, Nadjejda
2007-07-22 11:06:32Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Mycale (Oxymycale) Hentschel, 1929. 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=132137 on 2013-05-24
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