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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorGeodia simplex Schmidt, 1870 
AphiaID: 134043

Classification: Biota > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnimalia (Kingdom) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPorifera (Phylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorDemospongiae (Class) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorHeteroscleromorpha (Subclass) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorTetractinellida (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAstrophorina (Suborder) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorGeodiidae (Family) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorGeodiinae (Subfamily) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorGeodia (Genus) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorGeodia simplex (Species)
Status Unaccepted: synonym, or anything that is not accepted unaccepted
Accepted name  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorGeodia cydonium (Linnaeus, 1767)
Rank Species
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorGeodia Lamarck, 1815
Sources  original description Schmidt, O. (1870). Grundzüge einer Spongien-Fauna des atlantischen Gebietes. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): iii-iv, 1-88, pls I-VI.
page(s): 70 [details] [full text]

source of synonymy Cárdenas, P.; Rapp, H.T.: Klitgaard, A.B.; Best, M.; Thollesson, M.; Tendal, O.S. (2013). Taxonomy, biogeography and DNA barcodes of Geodia species (Porifera, Demospongiae, Tetractinellida) in the Atlantic boreo-arctic region. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 169, 251-311., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12056 [details]

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Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution 
From editor or global species database
North Atlantic Ocean
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorEuropean waters (ERMS scope) [details]
(no group)
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorWest Greenland Shelf (inaccurate) [details]
Specimen  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorHolotype ZMUC ZMUC-DEM-319 , locality Boreal Arctic (Egedesminde, West Greenland,) [details]
Links Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Encyclopedia of Life 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo PESI 
Note 
From editor or global species database
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorHolotype The holotype of Geodia simplex has the spicule repertoire of G. cydonium from the Mediterranean Sea. However, there must be a mistake, most likely from Schmidt’s side, as the label is in his handwriting. The algae growing on the specimen do not occur in Greenland; on the contrary, one of the species is Mediterranean, another one Mediterranean–southern boreal  [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:134043
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van Soest, Rob
2013-10-17 15:41:09Z  changed  Boury-Esnault, Nicole
  
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  Citation: Boury-Esnault, N.; van Soest, R. (2013). Geodia simplex Schmidt, 1870. 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.; Klautau, M.; Picton, B.; Kelly, M.; Vacelet, J.; Dohrmann, M.; Díaz, M.-C.; Cárdenas, P.; Carballo, J. L.; Rios Lopez, P. (2017). World Porifera database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=134043 on 2017-06-28
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