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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorHalichondria scandens Bowerbank, 1866 
AphiaID: 132631

Classification: Biota > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnimalia (Kingdom) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPorifera (Phylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorDemospongiae (Class) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorHalichondrida (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorHalichondriidae (Family) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorHalichondria (Genus)
Status alternate representation (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Accepted name  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorIophon nigricans (Bowerbank, 1858)
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorIophon Gray, 1867
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorHalichondria Fleming, 1828
Sources  original description Bowerbank, J.S. 1866a. A Monograph of the British Spongiadae. Volume 2. (Ray Society: London): i-xx, 1-388. (look up in IMIS) [details] [full text]

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Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution 
From editor or global species database
United Kingdom
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorUnited Kingdom [details]
Specimen  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorHolotype BMNH 1910.1.1.2255,2256,2257,2258, locality Celtic Seas (United Kingdom, Shetland) [details]
Links Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo PESI 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection 
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:132631
Taxonomic
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Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van Soest, Rob
2007-09-14 10:17:34Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2014). Halichondria scandens. 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.; Cárdenas, P. (2014) World Porifera database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=132631 on 2014-07-24
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