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Spongia (Spongia) solitaria Hyatt, 1877 
AphiaID: 165235

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Dictyoceratida (Order) > Spongiidae (Family) > Spongia (Genus) > Spongia (Spongia) (Subgenus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Spongia (Spongia) Linnaeus, 1759
Synonymised
taxa
  Spongia equina gossypina var. solitaria Hyatt, 1877 (status change)
Spongia solitaria 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]

from synonym: Van Soest, R.W.M. 1978. Marine sponges from Curaçao and other Caribbean localities. Part I. Keratosa. In: Hummelinck, P.W. & Van der Steen, L.J. (Eds), Uitgaven van de Natuurwetenschappelijke Studiekring voor Suriname en de Nederlandse Antillen. No. 94. Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands 56 (179): 1–94. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Bahamas Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Southern Caribbean [details]
Link To Encyclopedia of Life
Note  The Bahamas are not expressly mentioned with the description of S. solitaria (as S. equina gossypina var. solitaria) but contrary to what is said in Van Soest, 1978 it is assumed that it was from the Bahamas. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:165235
Taxonomic
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2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2009-06-07 12:26:43Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Spongia (Spongia) solitaria 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=165235 on 2013-05-22
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