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Crella rosea (Topsent, 1892) 
AphiaID: 133487

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Poecilosclerida (Order) > Myxillina (Suborder) > Crellidae (Family) > Crella (Genus)
Status alternate representation (subgenus assignment)
Record
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Accepted name  Crella (Yvesia) rosea (Topsent, 1892)
Rank Species
Parent Crella Gray, 1867
Sources  original description: Topsent, E. 1892b. Diagnoses d’éponges nouvelles de la Méditerranée et plus particulièrement de Banyuls. Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale (2) 10 (Notes et Revue 6) xvii-xxviii. [details] [full text]

basis of record: 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]

additional source: Ginn, B.K.; Logan, A.; Thomas, M.L.H.; Van Soest, R.W.M. 1998. Hymedesmia canadensis (Porifera: Poecilosclerida), a new species among new geographical records from the Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick, Canada. Journal of the Marine Biological Association U.K. 78: 1093-1100. [details]

additional source: Gosner, K.L. 1971. Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 693 p. (look up in IMIS[details]

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Subspecies Crella rosea laevigata (Descatoire, 1969) accepted as Crella (Yvesia) rosea (Topsent, 1892)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
French Exclusive Economic Zone [Mediterranean part] [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
Monaco [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Links Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To PESI
Notes  Diet: suspension feeding. Captures minute particles of food on their collars and ingesting them. [details]

Habitat: benthic  [details]

Holotype: MNHN [details]

Predators: generally for group, most predators (crabs and other invertebrates), find sponges distasteful either because of a presumably offensive odor or because of their spicules. Predators do include littorinid snails and nudibranchs. [details]

Reproduction: Asexual reproduction by buds and gemmules and sexual reproduction (internally) by eggs and sperm; free-swimming cilated larvae (in general, most species are believed to be hermaphroditic but may not produce male and female gametes simultaneously). [details]

Type locality: Banyuls, France [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:133487
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Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van Soest, Rob
2005-12-17 11:44:10Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2006-11-21 07:27:50Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Crella rosea (Topsent, 1892). 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=133487 on 2013-06-18
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