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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorNiphates digitalis (Lamarck, 1814) 
AphiaID: 166775

Classification: Biota > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnimalia (Kingdom) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPorifera (Phylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorDemospongiae (Class) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorHeteroscleromorpha (Subclass) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorHaplosclerida (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorNiphatidae (Family) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorNiphates (Genus) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorNiphates digitalis (Species)
Status accepted
Rank Species
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorNiphates Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864
Orig. name Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorSpongia digitalis Lamarck, 1814
Synonymised
names		  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorDasychalina cyathina de Laubenfels, 1936 (genus transfer & junior homonym)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorNiphates digitalis f. digitalis (Lamarck, 1814) (junior synonym)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorSclerochalina cyathus Schmidt, 1870 (genus transfer and junior synonym)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorSpongia digitalis Lamarck, 1814 (genus transfer)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorTuba crispa Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 (genus transfer and junior synonym)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorTuba digitalis (Lamarck, 1814) (genus transfer)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorTuba digitalis var. villosa Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 (genus transfer and junior synonym)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorTuba incerta Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 (genus transfer and junior synonym)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorTuba pavonina Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 (genus transfer & junior synonym)
Sources 
original description (of Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorDasychalina cyathina de Laubenfels, 1936) Laubenfels, M.W. De. (1936). 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 Publication. 467 (Tortugas Laboratory Paper 30) 1-225, pls 1-22.
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Forma Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorNiphates digitalis f. amorpha Wiedenmayer, 1977 accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorNiphates amorpha Van Soest, 1980
Forma Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorNiphates digitalis f. digitalis (Lamarck, 1814) accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorNiphates digitalis (Lamarck, 1814)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution 
From regional or thematic species database
Trusted: edited by a thematic editorEastern Caribbean [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Trusted: edited by a thematic editorEastern Caribbean [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Trusted: edited by a thematic editorEastern Caribbean [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Trusted: edited by a thematic editorFloridian [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editortype locality Caribbean Sea [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
From editor or global species database
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorNorthern Gulf of Mexico [details]
From regional or thematic species database
Trusted: edited by a thematic editorBahamian [details]
Trusted: edited by a thematic editorEastern Caribbean [details]
Trusted: edited by a thematic editorFloridian [from synonym] [details]
Trusted: edited by a thematic editorGreater Antilles [details]
Trusted: edited by a thematic editorSouthwestern Caribbean [details]
Trusted: edited by a thematic editorWestern Caribbean [details]
Links Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Barcode of Life (4 barcodes) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Encyclopedia of Life 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo GenBank (7 nucleotides; 6 proteins) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Sponge Barcoding Database (Niphates digitalis) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Sponge Barcoding Database (Niphates digitalis) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Sponge Barcoding Database (Niphates digitalis) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Sponge Barcoding Database (Niphates digitalis) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:166775
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2008-07-15 18:58:20Z  checked  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2008). Niphates digitalis. 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.; Klautau, M.; Picton, B.; Kelly, M.; Vacelet, J.; Dohrmann, M.; Díaz, M.-C.; Cárdenas, P.; Carballo, J. L. (2016). World Porifera database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=166775 on 2016-09-25
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