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Hippospongia mauritiana (Hyatt, 1877) 
AphiaID: 165111

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Dictyoceratida (Order) > Spongiidae (Family) > Hippospongia (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Hippospongia Schulze, 1879
Synonymised
taxa
  Spongia lapidescens mauritiana Hyatt, 1877 (genus transfer and status change)
Sources  original description: Hyatt, A. 1877. Revision of the North American Poriferae; with Remarks upon Foreign Species. Part II. Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History 2: 481-554, pls XV-XVII. [details] [full text]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Mascarene Islands [details]
Mauritian Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Link To Encyclopedia of Life
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:165111
Taxonomic
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Date   action   by
2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2010-04-24 15:43:26Z  checked  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Hippospongia mauritiana (Hyatt, 1877). 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=165111 on 2013-05-20
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