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Smenospongia musicalis (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) 
AphiaID: 165395

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Dictyoceratida (Order) > Thorectidae (Family) > Thorectinae (Subfamily) > Smenospongia (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Smenospongia Wiedenmayer, 1977
Synonymised
taxa		  Coscinoderma musicalis (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) (genus transfer)
 Spongia fenestrata Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 (genus transfer and junior synonym)
 Spongia musicalis Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 (genus transfer)
Sources  original description: Duchassaing De Fonbressin, P.; Michelotti, G. 1864. Spongiaires de la mer Caraïbe. Natuurkundige verhandelingen van de Hollandsche maatschappij der wetenschappen te Haarlem 21(2): 1-124, pls I-XXV. [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]

from synonym: Van Soest, R.W.M.; Stone, S.M.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Rützler, K. 1983b. Catalogue of the Duchassaing & Michelotti (1864) collection of West Indian sponges (Porifera). Bulletin Zoologisch Museum, Universiteit van Amsterdam 9(21): 189-205. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Eastern Caribbean [details]
Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Virgin Islands part of the Caribbean Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Specimens  Lectotype (from synonym): MSNT Port. 102, locality Eastern Caribbean (Virgin Islands, Saint Thomas) [view taxon]
Lectotype (from synonym): ZMA Por. 02097, locality Eastern Caribbean (Virgin Islands, Saint Thomas) [view taxon]
Link To Encyclopedia of Life
Image 
Spongia fenestrata Duch. & Mich lectotype specimen
[image from synonym]
Spongia fenestrata Duch. & Mich lectotype specimen
added on 2013-02-19 - author: van Soest, Rob
qualitystatus: checked by van Soest, Rob on 2013-02-19 15:04:13
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:165395
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2010-05-17 18:25:03Z  checked  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Smenospongia musicalis (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864). 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/authority/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=165395 on 2013-05-22
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