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Oceanapia viridescens (Schmidt, 1880) 
AphiaID: 166277

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Haplosclerida (Order) > Petrosina (Suborder) > Phloeodictyidae (Family) > Oceanapia (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Oceanapia Norman, 1869
Synonymised
taxa		  Siphonochalina viridescens Schmidt, 1880 (genus transfer)
Sources  original description: Schmidt, O. 1880b. Die Spongien des Meerbusen von Mexico (Und des caraibischen Meeres). Heft II. Abtheilung II. Hexactinelliden. Abtheilung III. Tetractinelliden. Monactinelliden und Anhang. Nachträge zu Abtheilung I (Lithistiden). Pp. 33-90, pls V-X. In: Reports on the dredging under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico, by the USCSS ‘Blake’. (Gustav Fischer:Jena). [details] [full text]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Barbados (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Eastern Caribbean [details]
Specimen  Holotype (from synonym): MCZ 6481, locality Barbados [view taxon]
Link To Encyclopedia of Life
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:166277
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2005-08-01 12:12:31Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2007-10-31 15:00:05Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Oceanapia viridescens (Schmidt, 1880). 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=166277 on 2013-05-24
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