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WoRMS taxon details
Clathria (Clathria) prolifera (Ellis & Solander, 1786)
AphiaID: 167563
AphiaID: 167563
| 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 | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Clathria (Clathria) Schmidt, 1862 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Clathria (Clathria) delicata Lambe, 1896 (junior synonym) Clathria delicata Lambe, 1896 Clathria prolifera (Ellis & Solander, 1786) (subgenus assignment) Microciona prolifera (Ellis & Solander, 1786) (genus transfer) Spongia ostracina Rafinesque, 1818 (genus transfer & junior synonym) Spongia prolifera Ellis & Solander, 1786 (genus transfer) Spongia urceolata Desor, 1851 (genus transfer & junior synonym) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Ellis, J.; Solander, D. 1786. The Natural History of many curious and uncommon Zoophytes, collected from various parts of the Globe. Systematically arranged and described by the late Daniel Solander. 4.(Benjamin White & Son: London): 1-206, pls 1-63. [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] | ||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Atlantic (from synonym) [details] Canadian Exclusive Economic Zone [Atlantic part] (from synonym) [details] Cobscook Bay (from synonym) [details] European waters (ERMS scope) (from synonym) [details] Gulf of Maine (from synonym) [details] New Jersey [details] North West Atlantic (from synonym) [details] United States Exclusive Economic Zone [Atlantic part] (from synonym) [details] | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Originally described from New Jersey, NW Atlantic, and subsequently reported from the whole Eastern Seaboard of the USA and south to Florida, Mexico and Brazil. The tropical records of this species need to be re-examined and are expected to belong to a different species. [details] Vosmaer (1935) lumped large numbers of unrelated species under the name Microciona prolifera. This is untenable and best ignored. [details] For a comprehensive synonymy and further references concerning this species see Hooper, 1996a: 175-176. [details] | ||||||||||
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2009). Clathria (Clathria) prolifera (Ellis & Solander, 1786). In: Van Soest, R.W.M, Boury-Esnault, N., Hooper, J.N.A., Rützler, K, de Voogd, N.J., Alvarez, B., Hajdu, E., Pisera, A.B., Vacelet, J. Manconi, R., Schoenberg, C., Janussen, D., Tabachnick, K.R., Klautau, M. (Eds) (2009). World Porifera database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=167563 on 2010-09-02 | |||||||||||
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