WoRMS taxon details
Mycale (Rhaphidotheca) Kent, 1870
AphiaID: 132139
AphiaID: 132139
| 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 | Rhaphidotheca marshallhalli Kent, 1870 (type by monotypy) | ||||||||||
| Parent | Mycale Gray, 1867 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Gomphostegia Topsent, 1896 (junior synonym) Mycale (Gomphostegia) Topsent, 1896 (junior synonym) Rhaphidotheca Kent, 1870 (subgenus transfer) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Kent, W. Saville 1870a. On two new Siliceous Sponges taken in the late Dredging-Expedition of the Yacht 'Norma' off the Coasts of Spain and Portugal. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (4) 6(33): 217-224, pl. XV. [details] [full text]
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] from synonym: Topsent, E. 1896b. Campagnes du Yacht Princesse Alice. Sur deux curieuses Espérellines des Açores. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 21: 147-150. [details] [view taxon] [full text] | ||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Mycale (Rhaphidotheca) arctica (Hentschel, 1929) Species Mycale (Rhaphidotheca) coronata (Dendy, 1926) Species Mycale (Rhaphidotheca) loricata (Topsent, 1896) Species Mycale (Rhaphidotheca) marshallhalli (Kent, 1870) | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||
| Link | To ITIS | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:132139 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Mycale (Rhaphidotheca) Kent, 1870. 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=132139 on 2013-05-22 | |||||||||||
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