WoRMS taxon details
Thoosa armata Topsent, 1888
AphiaID: 134152
AphiaID: 134152
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Astrophorida (Order) > Thoosidae (Family) > Thoosa (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Thoosa Hancock, 1849 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Topsent, E. 1887(1888). Contribution à l’étude des Clionides. Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale (2) 5 bis: 1-165, pls I-VII. [details] [full text]
basis of record: Rützler, K. 2002. Family Clionaidae D'Orbigny, 1851. Pp. 173-185. 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 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Rosell, D. & Uriz, M. J. 2002. Excavating and endolithic sponge species (Porifera) from the Mediterranean: species descriptions and identification key. Organisms, Diversity & Evolution 1-32 [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] additional source: Lévi, C. 1959a. Résultats scientifiques des Campagnes de la ‘Calypso’. Campagne de la ‘Calypso’ dans le Golfe de Guinée et aux îles Principe, São Tomé et Annobon. 5. Spongiaires. Annales de l’Institut océanographique 37 (4): 115-141, pls 5-6. [details] additional source: Lévi, C. 1965a. Spongiaires récoltés par l’expédition israélienne dans le sud de la Mer Rouge en 1962. Pp. 3-27. In: Israel South Red Sea Expedition,1962, Report 13. Bulletin. Sea Fisheries Research Station, Israel, (39). [details] [full text] additional source: Thomas, P.A. 1973a. Marine Demospongiae of Mahe Island in the Seychelles Bank (Indian Ocean). Annales du Musée royal de l’Afrique centrale. Série in 8vo. Sciences zoologiques (203): 1-96, pls 1-8. (look up in IMIS) [details] [full text] redescription: Topsent, E. 1918. Éponges de San Thomé. Essai sur les genres Spirastrella, Donatia et Chondrilla. Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale 57(6): 535-618. [details] [full text] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Atlantic [details] Azores [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Gabonese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Gulf of Guinea Central [details] Indian Ocean (not valid) [details] Landing Bay (not valid) [details] Mahe Island (not valid) [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] Red Sea (not valid) [details] | ||||||||||
| Specimen | Unknown type: MNHN DT 2561, locality Gulf of Guinea Central (Gabon) [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (12 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To PESI | ||||||||||
| Notes |
This species was originally described from Gabon (West Africa), so is unlikely to occur in the Indian Ocean. [details] Type locality: Yucatan [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:134152 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Thoosa armata Topsent, 1888. 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=134152 on 2013-06-19 | |||||||||||
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