WoRMS taxon details
Didiscus placospongioides Dendy, 1922
AphiaID: 165976
AphiaID: 165976
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Halichondrida (Order) > Heteroxyidae (Family) > Didiscus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Didiscus Dendy, 1922 | ||||||||||
| Parent | Didiscus Dendy, 1922 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Dendy, A. 1922b. Report on the Sigmatotetraxonida collected by H.M.S.‘Sealark’ in the Indian Ocean. Pp. 1-164, pls 1-18. In: Reports of the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905, Volume 7. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London (2), 18(1). [details] [full text]
basis of record: Hiemstra, F.; Van Soest, R.W.M. 1991. Didiscus verdensis spec. nov.(Porifera: Halichondrida) from the Cape Verde Islands, with a revision and phylogenetic classification of the genus Didiscus. Zoölogische Mededelingen. Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie te Leiden 65(1-14):39-52 [details] [full text] additional source: Vacelet, J. & P. Vasseur (1971). Eponges des recifs coralliens de Tulear (Madagascar). Thetys, Suppl. 1: 51-126. [details] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Cargados Carajos [details] Cargados Carajos/Tromelin Island [details] Indian Ocean [details] Levantine Sea (not valid) [details] Tuléar [details] Western and Northern Madagascar [details] | ||||||||||
| Link | To Encyclopedia of Life | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Holotype: BMNH 1921.11.7.112 [details] Type locality: Cargados Carjos [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:165976 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Didiscus placospongioides Dendy, 1922. 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=165976 on 2013-06-18 | |||||||||||
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