WoRMS taxon details
Terpios fugax Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864
AphiaID: 134307
AphiaID: 134307
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Hadromerida (Order) > Suberitidae (Family) > Terpios (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Terpios Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Terpios Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Prosuberites microsclerus de Laubenfels, 1936 (genus transfer & junior synonym) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Duchassaing De Fonbressin, P.; Michelotti, G. 1864. Spongiaires de la mer Caraïbe. Natuurkundige verhandelingen van de Hollandsche maatschappij der wetenschappen te Haarlem 21(2): 1-124, pls I-XXV. [details] [full text]
basis of record: Van Soest, R.W.M. 2002. Family Suberitidae. In: Hooper, J.N.A & Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds). Systema Porifera, a guide to the classification of the sponges (in 2 volumes). Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, New York: 1-1708, i-xlviii. [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. 1952. Spongiaires de la côte du Sénégal. Bulletin de l’Institut français d’Afrique noire (A. Sciences naturelles) 14(1): 34-59. [details] [full text] additional source: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Rützler, K., R. W. M. van Soest, and C. Piantoni. 2009. Sponges (Porifera) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 285–313 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] from synonym: Laubenfels, M.W. De 1936a. A Discussion of the Sponge Fauna of the Dry Tortugas in Particular and the West Indies in General, with Material for a Revision of the Families and Orders of the Porifera. Carnegie Institute of Washington (Tortugas Laboratory Paper N° 467) 30: 1-225, pls 1-22. [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Belize [details] Bermuda [details] Bonaire [details] British Virgin Islands Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Canary Islands Exclusive Economic Zone (not valid) [details] Caribbean Sea [details] Cuba [details] Eastern Caribbean [details] Floridian [details] Greater Antilles [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] Monaco (not valid) [details] Netherlands Antilles and Aruba Exclusive Economic Zone [details] North East Atlantic (not valid) [details] Northern Gulf of Mexico [details] Senegalese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Seychellois Exclusive Economic Zone (not valid) [details] Southern Caribbean [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United States part of the Gulf of Mexico (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Venezuela [details] Virgin Islands [details] | |||||||||||||
| Specimen | Holotype (from synonym): USNM 22493, locality Floridian (Florida, Bush Key Reef, at low tide) [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Links | Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland To Biodiversity Heritage Library (26 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
The European records of Terpios fugax are probably all Terpios gelatinosa. [details] Holotype: BMNH 1928.11.12.11 [details] Type locality: St. Thomas [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:134307 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Terpios fugax Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864. 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=134307 on 2013-05-21 | ||||||||||||||
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