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Xestospongia proxima (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) 
AphiaID: 166898

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Haplosclerida (Order) > Petrosina (Suborder) > Petrosiidae (Family) > Xestospongia (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (Genus transfer)
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Neopetrosia proxima (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
Rank Species
Parent Xestospongia de Laubenfels, 1932
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: Zea, S. 1987. Esponjas del Caribe Colombiano. (Catálogo Cientifico:Bogotá, Colombia): 1-286. [details]

additional source: Van Soest, R.W.M.; Stentoft, N. 1988. Barbados Deep-Water Sponges. In: Hummelinck, P.W. & Van der Steen, L.J. (Eds), Uitgaven van de Natuurwetenschappelijke Studiekring voor Suriname en de Nederlandse Antillen. No. 122. Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao andother Caribbean Islands, 70(215): 1-175. [details] [full text]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Barbados Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Virgin Islands [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:166898
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2007-08-29 13:07:36Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
2008-12-23 13:31:55Z  changed  de Voogd, Nicole
  
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  Citation: de Voogd, N.; van Soest, R. (2013). Xestospongia proxima (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=166898 on 2013-06-19
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