WoRMS taxon details
Polymastia conigera Bowerbank, 1874
AphiaID: 134196
AphiaID: 134196
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Hadromerida (Order) > Polymastiidae (Family) > Polymastia (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Polymastia Bowerbank, 1864 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Bowerbank, J.S. 1874b. A Monograph of the British Spongiadae.Volume 3. (Ray Society: London): i-xvii, 1-367, pls I-XCII. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Cabioch, L. 1968. Contribution à la connaissance de la faune des Spongiaires de la Manche occidentale. Démosponges de la région de Roscoff. Cahiers de Biologie Marine 9 (2): 211-246. [details] additional source: Van Soest, R.W.M. 1993a. Affinities of the Marine Demospongiae Fauna of the Cape Verde Islands and Tropical West Africa. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 159: 205-219. [details] additional source: Kelly, M. (2009). Demospongiae, Calcarea (Porifera). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [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: Boury-Esnault, N. 1987. The Polymastia species (Demosponges, Hadromerida) of the Atlantic Area. Pp. 29-66. In: Vacelet, J. & Boury-Esnault, N. (Eds), Taxonomy of Porifera from the N.E. Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea. NATO ASI Series G 13. (Springer-Verlag: Berlin, Heidelberg): 1-332. (look up in IMIS) [details] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Cape Verde [details] Celtic Seas [details] Channel Sea [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Indian Ocean [details] New Zealand [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] North Atlantic [details] Roscoff [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] West Africa [details] West Mediterranean [details] | ||||||||||
| Specimens |
Holotype: BMNH Bk379, locality Atlantic (Shetland Islands) [details]
Cotype: BMNH 30.7.3.19, locality Atlantic (Shetland Islands) [details] Lectotype: SME 00_POL_002, locality Atlantic (Shetland Islands) [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Polymastia specimens described by Dendy, 1921 (Sealark Expedition) and Bergquist, 1968 are not P. conigera, but an other species from the Indo-Pacific region [details] Type locality: Great Britain [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:134196 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Polymastia conigera Bowerbank, 1874. 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=134196 on 2013-05-23 | |||||||||||
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