WoRMS taxon details
Amphimedon compressa Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864
AphiaID: 166666
AphiaID: 166666
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Haplosclerida (Order) > Haplosclerina (Suborder) > Niphatidae (Family) > Amphimedon (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Amphimedon Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 Haliclona (Amphimedon) Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 | ||||||||||
| Parent | Amphimedon Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Amphimedon arborescens (Lamarck, 1814) sensu Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 (junior synonym) Amphimedon arborescens var. ensiformis Duchassing & Michelotti, 1864 (junior synonym) Axinella nanaspiculata Hartman, 1955 (genus transfer) Haliclona (Amphimedon) compressa (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) (genus transfer) Haliclona rubens (sensu Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) (genus transfer and synonym) Spongia arborescens var. Lamarck, 1814 (genus transfer and homonym) Spongia rubens sensu Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 (genus transfer and junior synonym) | ||||||||||
| 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]
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): Hartman, W.D. 1955. A collection of sponges from the west coast of the Yucatan Peninsula with descriptions of two new species. Bulletin of Marine Science of the Gulf and Caribbean 5(3): 161-189. [details] [view taxon] original description (from synonym): Lamarck, J.B.P. De Monet, Comte De, 1813-1814. Sur les polypiers empâtés. Suite du mémoire intitulé: Sur les Polypiers empâtés. Suite des éponges. Annales du Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Paris 20 (6): 294-312 (published 1813), 370-386, 432-458 (published 1814). [details] [view taxon] additional source (from synonym): Burton, M. 1954. Sponges. Pp. 215-239, pl. 9. In: The 'Rosaura' Expedition. Part 5. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology, 2(6). [details] [view taxon] [full text] additional source (from synonym): Laubenfels, M.W. De 1936a. A Discussion of the Sponge Fauna of the Dry Tortugas in Particular and the West Indies in General, with Material for a Revision of the Families and Orders of the Porifera. Carnegie Institute of Washington (Tortugas Laboratory Paper N° 467) 30: 1-225, pls 1-22. [details] [view taxon] additional source (from synonym): Pallas, P.S. (1766) Elenchus zoophytorum. Van Cleef, Hagae-Comitum, pp. 1-451, available online at http://www.gdz-cms.de/no_cache/en/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=222048 [details] [view taxon] [full text] basis of record (from synonym): Wiedenmayer, F. 1977b. Shallow-water sponges of the western Bahamas. Experientia Supplementum 28: 1-287, pls 1-43. [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Belize [details] British Virgin Islands (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Caribbean Sea [details] Cayman Islands [details] Colombia [details] Cuba [details] Eastern Caribbean [details] Greater Antilles [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Hispaniola [details] Jamaica [details] Mexican Exclusive Economic Zone [Caribbean part] (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mexico [details] Puerto Rico [details] Southern Caribbean [details] Southern Gulf of Mexico [details] Southwestern Caribbean [details] Venezuela [details] Virgin Islands [details] Western Caribbean [details] | ||||||||||
| Specimen | Lectotype: ZMA Por. 00863, locality Eastern Caribbean (U.S. Virgin Islands, St. Thomas) [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (15 nucleotides; 38 proteins) To Sponge Barcoding Database (Amphimedon compressa) To Sponge Barcoding Database (Amphimedon compressa) To Sponge Barcoding Database (Amphimedon compressa) To The Sponge Guide To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Type locality: St.Thomas [details] | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:166666 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Amphimedon compressa 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/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=166666 on 2013-06-20 | |||||||||||
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