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Mycale varpachovskii (Swartschewsky, 1906) 
AphiaID: 133313

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Poecilosclerida (Order) > Mycalina (Suborder) > Mycalidae (Family) > Mycale (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Mycale Gray, 1867
Synonymised
taxa		  Esperella varpachovskii Swartschewsky, 1906 (genus transfer)
Sources  original description: Swartschewsky, B. 1906. Materialui dlya faunui ghubok Belago Morya i otchasti Murmanskogo poberjya (Monaxonida). (Beiträge zur Spongien-Fauna des Weissen Meeres). Zapiski Kïevskago obshchestva estestvoispÿtatelei (Mémoires de la Société des Naturalistes de Kiew) 20(2): 307-355 [in Russian];German summary 356-371, pls 10-16. [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 European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Russian Exclusive economic Zone [Arctic part] [details]
White Sea [details]
Links To Encyclopedia of Life
To PESI
Note  This was assigned to the synonymy of Mycale thaumatochela, but the shape of the smaller chelae depicted by Swartschewsky appears different from Lundbeck's drawing. Possibly, Koltun's record of M. thaumatochela concerns this species and not Lundbeck's. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:133313
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van Soest, Rob
2005-09-09 16:45:37Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2005-12-17 18:39:48Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2010-05-31 13:43:21Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
2011-06-09 12:18:39Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Mycale varpachovskii (Swartschewsky, 1906). 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=133313 on 2013-05-23
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