WoRMS taxon details
Clathria (Microciona) affinis (Carter, 1880)
AphiaID: 167608
AphiaID: 167608
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Poecilosclerida (Order) > Microcionina (Suborder) > Microcionidae (Family) > Microcioninae (Subfamily) > Clathria (Genus) > Clathria (Microciona) (Subgenus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Clathria (Microciona) Bowerbank, 1862 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Clathria affinis (Carter, 1880) (subgenus assignment) Microciona affinis Carter, 1880 (genus transfer) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Carter, H.J. 1880b. Report on Specimens dredged up from the Gulf of Manaar and presented to the Liverpool Free Museum by Capt.W.H. Cawne Warren. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (5) 6(31):35-61, pls IV-VI; 129-156, pls VII, VIII. [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] additional source: Hooper, J.N.A.; Kelly, M.; Kennedy, J.A. 2000. A new Clathria(Porifera: Demospongiae: Microcionidae) from the Western Indian Ocean. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 42(2): 427-444. [details] [full text] additional source: Burton, M. 1959a. Sponges. Pp. 151-281. In: Scientific Reports. John Murray Expedition, 1933-34. 10(5). [(British Museum (Natural History): London]). [details] additional source (from synonym): Uriz, M.J. 1988. Deep-water sponges from the continental shelf and slope off Namibia (Southwest Africa): Classses Hexactinellida and Demospongia. Monografías de Zoología Marina 3: 9-157. [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||
| Distribution | type locality: South India and Sri Lanka [details] Belize (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Bonaire (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Caribbean Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Curaçao (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] East African Coral Coast [details] Indian Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mexico (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] South India and Sri Lanka (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Western Arabian Sea [details] Zanzibar [details] | ||||||||||
| Specimen | Holotype (from synonym): BMNH 1936.3.4.597, locality Gulf of Mannar [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Link | To Encyclopedia of Life | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:167608 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Clathria (Microciona) affinis (Carter, 1880). 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=167608 on 2013-06-19 | |||||||||||
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