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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPolymastia robusta Bowerbank, 1866 
AphiaID: 134210

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 editorHadromerida (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPolymastiidae (Family) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPolymastia (Genus)
Status Unaccepted: synonym, or anything that is not accepted unaccepted (junior synonym)
Accepted name  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPolymastia boletiformis (Lamarck, 1815)
Rank Species
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPolymastia Bowerbank, 1864
Sources  original description Bowerbank, J.S. 1866a. A Monograph of the British Spongiadae. Volume 2. (Ray Society: London): i-xx, 1-388. (look up in IMIS) [details] [full text]

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Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
German Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorAufrechter Schwamm  [details]
Direct child
taxa (1)
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Subspecies Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPolymastia robusta toporoki Koltun, 1966 accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPolymastia toporoki Koltun, 1966
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution 
From editor or global species database
Barents Sea
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorBarents Sea [details]
North Atlantic Ocean
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCanadian Exclusive Economic Zone [Atlantic part] [details]
(no group)
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorNamaqua (inaccurate) [details]
From other sources
Bay of Fundy
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorCobscook Bay [details]
Canada
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorJoes Point [details]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorL'Etete Passage [details]
North Atlantic Ocean
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorEuropean waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorGulf of Maine [details]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorNorth West Atlantic [details]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorUnited Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Specimen  Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorHolotype BM , locality United Kingdom [details]
Links Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Biodiversity Heritage Library (58 publications) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo PESI 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo ITIS
Notes 
From editor or global species database
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAuthority Some authors quote authority as Bowerbank, 1861 [details]

Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorDistribution Also in Northwest Atlantic Register of Marine Species. [details]

Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorTaxonomy This combination was already used by Bowerbank in 1862 and 1864, but he did not provide a proper description and as such these are nomina nuda. Only in 1866 did he provide a proper description and thus authorship and year is Bowerbank, 1866. [details]

From other sources
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorDiet suspension feeding. Captures minute particles of food on their collars and ingesting them. [details]

Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorDimensions Diameter to 52 mm [details]

Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorDistribution Gulf of St. Lawrence to Cape Cod [details]

Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorHabitat infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]

Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorPredators 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]

Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorReproduction 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]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:134210
Taxonomic
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
2006-07-10 10:33:20Z  changed  Camba Reu, Cibran
2008-07-20 12:55:31Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2014). Polymastia robusta Bowerbank, 1866. 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.; Cárdenas, P. (2014) World Porifera database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=134210 on 2014-07-13
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