WoRMS taxon details
Niphates Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864
AphiaID: 166770
AphiaID: 166770
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Haplosclerida (Order) > Haplosclerina (Suborder) > Niphatidae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | ||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Niphates erecta Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 (type by subsequent designation) | ||||||||||
| Parent | Niphatidae Van Soest, 1980 | ||||||||||
| 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]
basis of record: Desqueyroux-Faúndez, R.; Valentine, C. 2002. Family Niphatidae Van Soest, 1980. Pp. 874-890. In Hooper, J. N. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (ed.) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 1 (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow). [details] | ||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Niphates aga (de Laubenfels, 1954) Species Niphates alba van Soest, 1980 Species Niphates amorpha Wiedenmayer, 1977 Species Niphates cavernosa Kelly-Borges & Bergquist, 1988 Species Niphates caycedoi (Zea & van Soest, 1986) Species Niphates digitalis (Lamarck, 1814) Species Niphates erecta Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 Species Niphates furcata (Keller, 1889) Species Niphates hispida Desqueyroux-Faúndez, 1984 Species Niphates lunisimilis (De Laubenfels, 1930) Species Niphates lutea Lehnert & van Soest, 1999 Species Niphates mirabilis (Bowerbank, 1873) Species Niphates nitida Fromont, 1993 Species Niphates obtusispiculifera (Dendy, 1905) Species Niphates olemda (de Laubenfels, 1954) Species Niphates plumosa (Bowerbank, 1876) Species Niphates recondita (Wiedenmayer, 1977) Species Niphates rowi Ilan, Gugel & van Soest, 2004 Species Niphates toxifera Vacelet, Bitar, Carteron, Zibrowius & Perez, 2007 Species Niphates brevispiculifera (Dendy, 1905) accepted as Amphimedon brevispiculifera (Dendy, 1905) Species Niphates thomasiana Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 accepted as Niphates erecta Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 Species Niphates venosa Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 accepted as Niphates erecta Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To Sponge Barcoding Database (Niphates sp. 1056) To Sponge Barcoding Database (Niphates sp. 307) To Sponge Barcoding Database (Niphates sp. 321) To ITIS | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:166770 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Niphates 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=166770 on 2013-05-24 | |||||||||||
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