WoRMS taxon details
Spongia polychotoma Esper, 1794
AphiaID: 165149
AphiaID: 165149
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Dictyoceratida (Order) > Spongiidae (Family) > Spongia (Genus) |
| Status | species inquirenda | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Spongia Linnaeus, 1759 | ||||||||||
| Source |
original description: Esper, E.C.J. 1794. Die Pflanzenthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Farben erleuchtet, nebst Beschreibungen. Zweyter Theil. (Raspe: Nürnberg):1-303. [details] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||
| Distribution | South European Atlantic Shelf (probably not valid) [details] | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Possibly this is Haliclona (Haliclona) oculata, but the description is unclear. Not redescribed by Ehlers (1870). [details] Type locality: "Very common, especially on southern and eastern coasts of our continent" [details] | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:165149 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Spongia polychotoma Esper, 1794. 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=165149 on 2013-05-19 | |||||||||||
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