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Oopsacas minuta Topsent, 1927 
AphiaID: 134408

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Hexactinellida (Class) > Hexasterophora (Subclass) > Lyssacinosida (Order) > Leucopsacidae (Family) > Oopsacas (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Oopsacas Topsent, 1927
Parent Oopsacas Topsent, 1927
Sources  original description: Topsent, E. 1927b. Diagnoses d'Éponges nouvelles recueillies par le Prince Albert ler de Monaco. Bulletin de l'Institut océanographique Monaco (502): 1-19. [details]

original description: Topsent, E. 1928c. Spongiaires de l’Atlantique et de la Méditerranée provenant des croisières du Prince Albert ler de Monaco. Résultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies par le Prince Albert I. Monaco 74:1-376, pls I-XI. [details] [full text]

additional source: Bakran-Petricioli, T.; Vacelet, J.; Zibrowius, H.; Petricioli, D.; Chevaldonné, P.; Raa, T. 2007. New data on the distribution of the ‘deep-sea’ sponges Asbestopluma hypogea and Oopsacas minuta in the Mediterranean Sea. Marine Ecology 28 (Suppl. 1): 10–23. [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]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Adriatic Sea [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gibraltarian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
South European Atlantic Shelf [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [Mediterranean part] [details]
Specimen  Unknown type: MNHN HT 54 [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To GenBank (1451 nucleotides; 4 proteins)
To PESI
Notes  Holotype: MOM [details]

Type locality: Gibraltar [details]
Image 
3 PP cave, counting deep-sea hexactinellid sponge Oopsacas minuta.
3 PP cave, counting deep-sea hexactinellid sponge Oopsacas minuta.
added on 2006-09-26 - author: J Vacelet
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:134408
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van Soest, Rob
2005-09-09 16:45:37Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2010-04-15 18:03:59Z  checked  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Oopsacas minuta Topsent, 1927. 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=134408 on 2013-05-20
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