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Spongia aurea Montagu, 1818 
AphiaID: 132382

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Dictyoceratida (Order) > Spongiidae (Family) > Spongia (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Hymeniacidon perlevis (Montagu, 1818)
Rank Species
Parent Spongia Linnaeus, 1759
Sources  original description: Montagu, G. 1818. An Essay on Sponges, with Descriptions of all the Species that have been discovered on the Coast of Great Britain. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society 2(1): 67-122, pls III-XVI. [details] [full text]

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]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Specimen  Unknown type , locality United Kingdom [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications)
To PESI
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:132382
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van Soest, Rob
2005-12-18 15:59:31Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2005-12-20 11:04:07Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2010-05-20 19:06:47Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Spongia aurea Montagu, 1818. 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=132382 on 2013-05-26
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