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Clathria (Microciona) assimilis Topsent, 1925 
AphiaID: 167616

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 assimilis Topsent, 1925 (subgenus assignment)
Microciona assimilis (Topsent & Olivier, 1943) (genus transfer)
Sources  original description: Topsent, E.; Olivier, L. 1943. Eponges observées dans les parages de Monaco (fin). Bulletin de l’Institut océanographique, Monaco (854): 1-12. [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: Pansini, M. 1987a. Littoral demosponges from the banks of the Strait of Sicily and the Alboran Sea. Pp. 149-185. In: Vacelet, J. & Boury-Esnault, N. (Eds), Taxonomy of Porifera from the N.E. Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea. NATO ASI Series G 13. (Springer-Verlag: Berlin, Heidelberg): 1-332. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Topsent, E. 1925c. Étude des Spongiaires du Golfe de Naples. Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale 63(5): 623-725, pl. VIII. [details] [full text]

additional source (from synonym): Van Soest, R.W.M. 2001. Porifera, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 85-103 (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

additional source (from synonym): Babiç, K. 1922. Monactinellida und Tetractinellida des Adriatischen Meeres. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 46(2): 217-302, pls 8-9. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Adriatic Sea [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Graham Bank [details]
Western Mediterranean (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Specimen  Holotype (from synonym): MNHN DT 125, locality Western Mediterranean (Monaco) [view taxon]
Links To Encyclopedia of Life
To PESI
Notes  The name Clathria assimilis was proposed by Topsent (1925c: 649), for Amphilectus armatus sensu Babic (1922) (not Bowerbank, 1866). [details]

Habitat: Volcanic scoriae [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:167616
Taxonomic
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2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2009-03-12 08:38:15Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
2009-06-21 19:40:53Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
2010-02-15 15:34:07Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
2012-10-30 13:19:54Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Clathria (Microciona) assimilis Topsent, 1925. 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=167616 on 2013-06-19
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