WoRMS taxon details
Mycale macilenta (Bowerbank, 1866)
AphiaID: 133293
AphiaID: 133293
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Poecilosclerida (Order) > Mycalina (Suborder) > Mycalidae (Family) > Mycale (Genus) |
| Status | alternate representation (subgenus assignment) | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Accepted name | Mycale (Carmia) macilenta (Bowerbank, 1866) | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Mycale Gray, 1867 | |||||||||||||
| 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]
basis of record: Van Soest, R.W.M.; Hajdu, E. 2002. Family Mycalidae Lundbeck, 1905. Pp. 669-690. 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: Mustapha, K.B.,Zarrouk, S., Souissi, A., ; El Abed, A. 2003.Diversite Des Desmosponges Tunisiennes.Bull.Inst. Natn. Scien. Tech. Mer de Salammbô. Vol. 30 [details] additional source: Burton, M. 1956. The sponges of West Africa. Atlantide Report (Scientific Results of the Danish Expedition to the Coasts of Tropical West Africa, 1945-1946, Copenhagen) 4: 111-147. [details] additional source: Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [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] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Variety Mycale macilenta var. australis Hentschel, 1911 accepted as Mycale (Carmia) hentscheli Hooper & Wiedenmayer, 1994 | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Atlantic Europe [details] Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] France [details] Gulf of Guinea West [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] Netherlands Antilles (not valid) [details] North East Atlantic [details] Scotland [details] Tunisia [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] West Africa [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) To PESI To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Note |
Mainly a western European species. [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:133293 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Mycale macilenta (Bowerbank, 1866). 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=133293 on 2013-06-20 | ||||||||||||||
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