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Tethyspira spinosa (Bowerbank, 1874) 
AphiaID: 132558

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Halichondrida (Order) > Dictyonellidae (Family) > Tethyspira (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Tethyspira Topsent, 1890
Synonymised
taxa
  Lissomyxilla spinosa (Bowerbank, 1874) (genus transfer)
Tethea spinosa Bowerbank, 1874 (genus transfer)
Sources  original description: Bowerbank, J.S. 1874b. A Monograph of the British Spongiadae.Volume 3. (Ray Society: London): i-xvii, 1-367, pls I-XCII. (look up in IMIS[details]

basis of record: Van Soest, R.W.M.; Erpenbeck, D.; Alvarez De Glasby, B. 2002. Family Dictyonellidae Van Soest, Diaz & Pomponi, 1990. Pp. 773-786. 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: 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: Van Soest, R.W.M. 1993a. Affinities of the Marine Demospongiae Fauna of the Cape Verde Islands and Tropical West Africa. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 159: 205-219. [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]

source of synonymy (from synonym): Hanitsch, R. 1894a. Revision of the Generic Nomenclature and Classification in Bowerbank’s ‘British Spongiadae’. Proceedings and Transactions of the Liverpool Biological Society 8: 173-195. [details] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English pork scratching sponge  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Cape Verde [details]
Celtic Seas [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
North Atlantic [details]
North Sea [details]
United Kingdom (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
West Africa [details]
West Coast of France [details]
West Mediterranean [details]
Wimereux [details]
Links Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:132558
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van Soest, Rob
2007-01-15 19:17:36Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
2007-08-20 14:47:02Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Tethyspira spinosa (Bowerbank, 1874). 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=132558 on 2013-06-19
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