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Xestospongia diprosopia (de Laubenfels, 1930) 
AphiaID: 166886

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Haplosclerida (Order) > Petrosina (Suborder) > Petrosiidae (Family) > Xestospongia (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Xestospongia de Laubenfels, 1932
Synonymised
taxa		  Haliclona diprosopia de Laubenfels, 1930 (genus transfer)
Sources  original description: Laubenfels, M.W. De 1930. The Sponges of California. (Abstracts of dissertations for the degree of doctor of philosophy) Stanford University Bulletin (5) 5(98): 24-29. [details]

original description: Laubenfels, M.W. De 1932b. The marine and fresh-water sponges of California. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 81(2927):1-140. [details]

basis of record: Desqueyroux-Faúndez, R.; Valentine, C. 2002. Family Petrosiidae Van Soest, 1980. Pp. 906-917. 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]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution California [details]
Northern California [details]
United States part of the North Pacific Ocean (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Link To Encyclopedia of Life
Images 

[image from synonym]

added on 2010-08-02 - author: van Soest, Rob
qualitystatus: checked by van Soest, Rob on 2010-08-02 21:07:00

Haliclona diprosopia, spicules and skeleton of holotype
[image from synonym]
Haliclona diprosopia, spicules and skeleton of holotype
added on 2010-08-02 - author: Ruth Desqueyroux-Faúndez
qualitystatus: checked by van Soest, Rob on 2010-08-02 21:11:13
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:166886
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2008-03-07 15:24:48Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Xestospongia diprosopia (de Laubenfels, 1930). 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=166886 on 2013-06-20
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