WoRMS taxon details
Niphates amorpha Wiedenmayer, 1977
AphiaID: 166772
AphiaID: 166772
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Haplosclerida (Order) > Haplosclerina (Suborder) > Niphatidae (Family) > Niphates (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Niphates Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Gelliodes sosuae Pulitzer-Finali, 1986 (genus transfer and junior synonym) Niphates digitalis f. amorpha Wiedenmayer, 1977 (elevation to species rank) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Wiedenmayer, F. 1977b. Shallow-water sponges of the western Bahamas. Experientia Supplementum 28: 1-287, pls 1-43. [details] basis of record: Van Soest, R.W.M. 1980. Marine sponges from Curaçao and other Caribbean localities. Part II. Haplosclerida. In: Hummelinck, P.W. & Van der Steen, L.J. (Eds), Uitgaven van de Natuurwetenschappelijke Studiekring voor Suriname en de Nederlandse Antillen. No. 104. Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands 62 (191): 1–173. [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] from synonym: Pulitzer-Finali, G. 1986. A collection of West Indian Demospongiae (Porifera). In appendix, a list of the Demospongiae hitherto recorded from the West Indies. Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale Giacomo Doria 86: 65-216. [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Bahamas (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Bahamian [details] Caribbean Sea [details] Costa Rica [details] Cuba [details] Dominican Republic (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Eastern Caribbean [details] Greater Antilles [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 1 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection | ||||||||||
| Note |
Type locality: Bahamas [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:166772 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Niphates amorpha Wiedenmayer, 1977. 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=166772 on 2013-05-25 | |||||||||||
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