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Clathria (Clathria) meyeri (Bowerbank, 1877) 
AphiaID: 167545

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Poecilosclerida (Order) > Microcionina (Suborder) > Microcionidae (Family) > Microcioninae (Subfamily) > Clathria (Genus) > Clathria (Clathria) (Subgenus)
Status accepted
Record
status
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Rank Species
Parent Clathria (Clathria) Schmidt, 1862
Synonymised
taxa
  Clathria meyeri (Bowerbank, 1877) (subgenus assignment)
Ophlitaspongia meyeri Bowerbank, 1877 (genus transfer)
Sources  original description: Bowerbank, J.S. 1877. Descriptions of five new species of sponges discovered by A.B. Meyer on the Philippine Islands and New Guinea. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1877: 456-464. [details] [full text]

basis of record: Hooper, J.N.A. 1996a. Revision of Microcionidae (Porifera: Poecilosclerida: Demospongiae), with description of Australian species. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 40: 1-626. [details] [full text]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Indonesian Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Papua (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Link To Encyclopedia of Life
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:167545
Taxonomic
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2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2009-05-23 19:27:33Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Clathria (Clathria) meyeri (Bowerbank, 1877). 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=167545 on 2013-05-25
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