WoRMS taxon details
Xestospongia variabilis (Ridley, 1884)
AphiaID: 132930
AphiaID: 132930
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Haplosclerida (Order) > Petrosina (Suborder) > Petrosiidae (Family) > Xestospongia (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Xestospongia de Laubenfels, 1932 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Halichondria variabilis (Ridley, 1884) (genus transfer) Schmidtia variabilis Ridley, 1884 (genus transfer) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Ridley, S.O. 1884a. Spongiida. Pp. 366-482, pls 39-43; 582-630, pls 53-54. In: Report on the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the Voyage of H.M.S. ‘Alert’, 1881-2. (British Museum (Natural History): London). [details] [full text]
basis of record (from synonym): Hooper, J.N.A.; Wiedenmayer, F. 1994. Porifera. Pp. 1-620. In: Wells, A. (Ed.), Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Volume 12. (CSIRO: Melbourne)., available online at http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/fauna/afd/taxa/PORIFERA/checklist#selected [details] [view taxon] new combination reference (from synonym): Koltun, V.M. 1964b. Sponges of the Antarctic. 1 Tetraxonida and Cornacuspongida. Pp. 6-133, 443-448. In: Pavlovskii, E.P., Andriyashev,A.P. & Ushakov, P.V. (Eds), Biological Reports of the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958), Akademya Nauk SSSR [English translation,1966, Israel Program for Scientific Translation] [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Australia [details] Bonaparte Coast [details] Kerguelen Islands (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Link | To Encyclopedia of Life | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:132930 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Xestospongia variabilis (Ridley, 1884). 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=132930 on 2013-06-20 | ||||||||||||||
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