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Agelas dispar Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 
AphiaID: 164827

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Agelasida (Order) > Agelasidae (Family) > Agelas (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
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Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Agelas Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864
Parent Agelas Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864
Synonymised
taxa
  Agelas clavaeformis (Carter, 1883) (junior synonym)
Agelas sparsus (Gray, 1867) (junior synonym)
Ectyon clavaeformis Carter, 1883 (genus transfer & junior synonym)
Ectyon sparsus Gray, 1867 (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Ectyon sparsus var. clavaeformis Carter, 1883 (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 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]

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: Carter, H.J. 1883b. Contributions to our Knowledge of the Spongida. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (5) 12 (71): 308-329, pls XI-XIV. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

from synonym: Gray, J.E. 1867a. Notes on the Arrangement of Sponges, with the Descriptions of some New Genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867(2): 492-558, pls XXVII-XXVIII. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

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, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Bahamas (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Bahamian [details]
Belize [details]
Bonaire [details]
Caribbean Sea [details]
Colombia [details]
Cuba [details]
Eastern Caribbean [details]
Floridian (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Hispaniola [details]
Jamaica [details]
Mexico [details]
Panama [details]
St. Martin [details]
West Indies (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Links To Barcode of Life (9 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (26 nucleotides; 15 proteins)
To Sponge Barcoding Database (Agelas dispar)
To Sponge Barcoding Database (Agelas dispar)
To Sponge Barcoding Database (Agelas dispar)
To The Sponge Guide
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details]

Holotype: ZMA Por.607 [details]

Type locality: St.Martin [details]
Images 
Agelas dispar Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 Holotype
Agelas dispar Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 Holotype
added on 2011-12-25 - author: van Soest, Rob
qualitystatus: checked by van Soest, Rob on 2011-12-25 17:04:57

Ectyon sparsus Gray, 1867
[image from synonym]
Ectyon sparsus Gray, 1867
added on 2012-01-05 - author: van Soest, Rob
qualitystatus: checked by van Soest, Rob on 2012-01-05 22:30:36
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:164827
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Agelas dispar 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=164827 on 2013-05-20
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