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Echinochalina (Echinochalina) melana van Soest & Stentoft, 1988 
AphiaID: 167815

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Poecilosclerida (Order) > Microcionina (Suborder) > Microcionidae (Family) > Microcioninae (Subfamily) > Echinochalina (Genus) > Echinochalina (Echinochalina) (Subgenus)
Status accepted
Record
status
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Rank Species
Parent Echinochalina (Echinochalina) Thiele, 1903
Synonymised
taxa
  Echinochalina melana van Soest & Stentoft, 1988 (subgenus assignment)
Sources  original description: 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 (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Barbados Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Caribbean Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Eastern Caribbean [details]
Specimen  Holotype (from synonym): ZMA Por. 05509, locality Eastern Caribbean (Barbados, off Paynes Bay, dredged) [view taxon]
Link To Encyclopedia of Life
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:167815
Taxonomic
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2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2010-05-23 14:38:17Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Echinochalina (Echinochalina) melana van Soest & Stentoft, 1988. 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=167815 on 2013-05-24
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