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Agelas sceptrum (Lamarck, 1815) 
AphiaID: 164841

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
  Agelas arborescens (Lamarck, 1815) (junior synonym)
Agelas cylindrica (Carter, 1883) (junior synonym)
Agelas longissima Pulitzer-Finali, 1986 (junior synonym)
Alcyonium sceptrum Lamarck, 1815 (genus transfer)
Ectyon cylindricum Carter, 1883 (genus transfer & junior synonym)
Ectyon sceptrum (Lamarck, 1815) (genus transfer)
Sources  original description: Lamarck, J.B.P. De Monet, Comte De 1815 [1814]. Suite des polypiers empâtés. Mémoires du Muséum d’Histoire naturelle, Paris 1: 69-80, 162-168, 331-340. [details]

additional source: Van Soest, R.W.M.; Stentoft, N. 1988. Barbados Deep-Water Sponges. In: Hummelinck, P.W. & Van der Steen, L.J. (Eds), Uitgaven van de Natuurwetenschappelijke Studiekring voor Suriname en de Nederlandse Antillen. No. 122. Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao andother Caribbean Islands, 70(215): 1-175. [details] [full text]

from synonym: Topsent, E. 1933. Eponges de Lamarck conservées au Muséum de Paris.Fin. Archives du Muséum national d’histoire naturelle. Paris (6) 10:1-60, pls I-III. [details] [view taxon]

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: Pulitzer-Finali, G. 1986. A collection of West Indian Demospongiae (Porifera). In appendix, a list of the Demospongiae hitherto recorded from the West Indies. Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale Giacomo Doria 86: 65-216. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Alcolado, P.M. 1980. Esponjas de Cuba. Nuevos registros. Poeyana 197: 1-10. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Bahamas (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Bahamian [details]
Barbados (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Barbados Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Belizean Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Bonaire [details]
Caribbean Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Cayman Islands [details]
Colombian part of the Caribbean Sea [details]
Cuba [details]
Cuban Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Eastern Caribbean [details]
Greater Antilles [details]
Jamaica [details]
Mexican Exclusive Economic Zone [Caribbean part] [details]
Southern Caribbean [details]
Venezuela [details]
Specimen  Unknown type (from synonym): MNHN DT 659 [view taxon]
Links To Barcode of Life (7 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (14 nucleotides; 7 proteins)
To The Sponge Guide
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection
To ITIS
Image 
Alcyonium sceptrum Lamarck
[image from synonym]
Alcyonium sceptrum Lamarck
added on 2012-02-13 - author: van Soest, Rob
qualitystatus: checked by van Soest, Rob on 2012-02-13 21:20:19
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:164841
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Agelas sceptrum (Lamarck, 1815). 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=164841 on 2013-05-20
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