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Spongia (Australospongia) Cook & Bergquist, 2001 
AphiaID: 165150

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Dictyoceratida (Order) > Spongiidae (Family) > Spongia (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Subgenus
Typetaxon Spongia (Australospongia) gracilis Cook & Bergquist, 2001 (type by original designation)
Parent Spongia Linnaeus, 1759
Sources  original description: Cook, S. De C.; Bergquist, P.R. 2001. New species of Spongia(Porifera: Demospongiae: Dictyoceratida) from New Zealand, and a proposed subgeneric structure. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 35(1): 33-58. [details]

basis of record: Cook, S.D.C.; Bergquist, P.R. 2002. Family Spongiidae Gray, 1867. Pp. 1051-1060. 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]

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[show all]		 Species Spongia (Australospongia) gracilis Cook & Bergquist, 2001
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Link To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:165150
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2010-05-17 18:25:03Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Spongia (Australospongia) Cook & Bergquist, 2001. 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=165150 on 2013-05-22
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