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Agelas cervicornis (Schmidt, 1870) 
AphiaID: 164820

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Agelasida (Order) > Agelasidae (Family) > Agelas (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Agelas Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864
Synonymised
taxa		  Chalinopsis cervicornis Schmidt, 1870 (genus transfer)
 Spongia arborescens Lamarck, 1814 (genus transfer and homonym)
Sources  original description: Schmidt, O. 1870. Grundzüge einer Spongien-Fauna des atlantischen Gebietes. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): iii-iv, 1-88, pls I-VI. [details] [full text]

basis of record: Van Soest, R.W.M. 2002. Family Agelasidae Verrill, 1907. Pp. 819-823. 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). [details]

from synonym: Lamarck, J.B.P. De Monet, Comte De, 1813-1814. Sur les polypiers empâtés. Suite du mémoire intitulé: Sur les Polypiers empâtés. Suite des éponges. Annales du Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Paris 20 (6): 294-312 (published 1813), 370-386, 432-458 (published 1814). [details] [view taxon]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Caribbean Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Eastern Caribbean [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To The Sponge Guide
Note  This is the type species of the unaccepted genus Chalinopsis. [details]
Images 
Agelas cervicornis
Agelas cervicornis
added on 2012-02-08 - author: van Soest, Rob
qualitystatus: checked by van Soest, Rob on 2012-02-08 21:13:44

Spongia arborescens holotype
[image from synonym]
Spongia arborescens holotype
added on 2012-02-13 - author: van Soest, Rob
qualitystatus: checked by van Soest, Rob on 2012-02-13 21:14:45
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:164820
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2006-01-03 18:48:18Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Agelas cervicornis (Schmidt, 1870). 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=164820 on 2013-05-25
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