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Leuconia nivea (Grant, 1826) 
AphiaID: 132201

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Calcarea (Class) > Calcaronea (Subclass) > Baerida (Order) > Baeriidae (Family) > Leuconia (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Leuconia Grant, 1833
Synonymised
taxa
  Baeria nivea (Grant, 1826) (genus transfer)
Leucandra nivea (Grant, 1826) (genus transfer)
Spongia nivea Grant, 1826 (genus transfer)
Sources  original description: Grant, R.E. 1826b. Remarks on the structures of some Calcareous Sponges. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal 1: 166-170. [details] [full text]

basis of record: Borojevic, R.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Manuel, M.; Vacelet, J. (2002). Order Baerida Borojevic, Boury-Esnault & Vacelet, 2000, in: Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (Ed.) (2002). Systema Porifera: a guide to the classification of sponges. pp. 1193-1200 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Cruz, T. 2002. Esponjas marinas de Canarias. Consejería de Política Territorial y Medio Ambiente del Gobierno de Canarias, S/C Tenerife. 260 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]

additional source: Burton, M. 1930c. Norwegian Sponges from the Norman Collection. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1930 (2): 487-546, pls I-II. [details]

from synonym: BODC (2009). Species list from the British Oceanographic Data Centre. [details] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
German Fladenkalkschwamm  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Azores Canaries Madeira [details]
Celtic Seas [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
North Sea [details]
Northern Norway and Finnmark [details]
Norwegian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
South European Atlantic Shelf [details]
Southern Norway [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Wimereux [details]
Links Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (31 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:132201
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van Soest, Rob
2006-12-30 10:24:33Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Leuconia nivea (Grant, 1826). 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=132201 on 2013-05-18
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