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Spongia (Spongia) plana Hyatt, 1877 
AphiaID: 165231

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Dictyoceratida (Order) > Spongiidae (Family) > Spongia (Genus) > Spongia (Spongia) (Subgenus)
Status species inquirenda
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Spongia (Spongia) Linnaeus, 1759
Synonymised
taxa		  Spongia equina cerebriformis var. plana Hyatt, 1877 (status change)
 Spongia plana Hyatt, 1877 (subgenus assignment)
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
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Floridian [details]
Gilbert/Ellis Islands (not valid) [details]
United States part of the Gulf of Mexico (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Link To Encyclopedia of Life
Note  Spongia of uncertain identity. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:165231
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2009-04-17 07:57:56Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
2012-05-17 13:48:03Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Spongia (Spongia) plana 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=165231 on 2013-05-22
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