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Axinella polycapella de Laubenfels, 1953 
AphiaID: 165501

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Halichondrida (Order) > Axinellidae (Family) > Axinella (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Axinella Schmidt, 1862
Synonymised
taxa
  Axinella bookhouti Wells, Wells & Gray, 1960 (junior synonym)
Pseudaxinella wilsoni Wells, Wells & Gray, 1960 (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Sources  original description: Laubenfels, M.W. De 1953a. Sponges from the Gulf of Mexico.Bulletin of Marine Science of the Gulf and Caribbean 2(3): 511-557. [details]

basis of record: Alvarez, B.; Van Soest, R.W.M.; Rützler, K. 1998. A Revision of Axinellidae (Porifera: Demospongiae) in the Central West Atlantic Region. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 598: 1-47. [details] [full text]

additional source: Rützler, K., R. W. M. van Soest, and C. Piantoni. 2009. Sponges (Porifera) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 285–313 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]

original description (from synonym): Wells, H.W.; Wells, M.J.; Gray, I.E. 1960. Marine sponges of North Carolina. Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 76(2): 200-245. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Caribbean Sea [details]
Carolinian [details]
Cuba [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Mexico [details]
Northern Gulf of Mexico [details]
United States part of the Gulf of Mexico [details]
United States part of the North Atlantic Ocean (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Holotype: USNM [details]

Type locality: Florida, USA [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:165501
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2007-07-27 12:35:06Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
2007-08-10 14:08:54Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Axinella polycapella de Laubenfels, 1953. 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=165501 on 2013-06-18
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