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Hymedesmia (Hymedesmia) mertoni Hentschel, 1912 
AphiaID: 133602

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Poecilosclerida (Order) > Myxillina (Suborder) > Hymedesmiidae (Family) > Hymedesmia (Genus) > Hymedesmia (Hymedesmia) (Subgenus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Hymedesmia (Hymedesmia) Bowerbank, 1864
Synonymised
taxa		  Hymedesmia mertoni Hentschel, 1912 (subgenus assignment)
Sources  original description: Hentschel, E. 1912. Kiesel- und Hornschwämme der Aru- und Kei-Inseln. Abhandlungen herausgegeben von der Senckenbergischen naturforschenden Gesellschaft 34(3): 293-448, pls 13-21. [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]

from synonym: Uriz, M.J. 1988. Deep-water sponges from the continental shelf and slope off Namibia (Southwest Africa): Classses Hexactinellida and Demospongia. Monografías de Zoología Marina 3: 9-157. [details] [view taxon]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Arafura Sea [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) (not valid) [details]
Indonesia [details]
Indonesian Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Links To Encyclopedia of Life
To PESI
Note  H. mertoni is reported from the Azores by Boury-Esnault & Lopes, 1985, but this is unlikely to be correct. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:133602
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
2007-05-19 19:12:39Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Hymedesmia (Hymedesmia) mertoni Hentschel, 1912. 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=133602 on 2013-05-24
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