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Ectyoplasia ferox (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) 
AphiaID: 168021

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Poecilosclerida (Order) > Microcionina (Suborder) > Raspailiidae (Family) > Raspailiinae (Subfamily) > Ectyoplasia (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Ectyoplasia Topsent, 1931
Synonymised
taxa
  Amphimedon ferox Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 (genus transfer)
Ectyoplasia ferox surgens Wiedenmayer, 1977 (junior synonym)
Ectyoplasia surgens Wiedenmayer, 1977 (junior synonym)
Hymeniacidon amphilecta de Laubenfels, 1936 (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Sources  original description: Duchassaing De Fonbressin, P.; Michelotti, G. 1864. Spongiaires de la mer Caraïbe. Natuurkundige verhandelingen van de Hollandsche maatschappij der wetenschappen te Haarlem 21(2): 1-124, pls I-XXV. [details] [full text]

additional source: Rützler, K., R. W. M. van Soest, and C. Piantoni. 2009. Sponges (Porifera) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 285–313 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]

from synonym: Wiedenmayer, F. 1977b. Shallow-water sponges of the western Bahamas. Experientia Supplementum 28: 1-287, pls 1-43. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Laubenfels, M.W. De 1936a. A Discussion of the Sponge Fauna of the Dry Tortugas in Particular and the West Indies in General, with Material for a Revision of the Families and Orders of the Porifera. Carnegie Institute of Washington (Tortugas Laboratory Paper N° 467) 30: 1-225, pls 1-22. [details] [view taxon]

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Subspecies Ectyoplasia ferox explicata Wiedenmayer, 1977 accepted as Dragmacidon explicatum (Wiedenmayer, 1977)
Subspecies Ectyoplasia ferox surgens Wiedenmayer, 1977 accepted as Ectyoplasia ferox (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Bahamas Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Bahamian [details]
Belize [details]
Bonaire [details]
Caribbean Sea [details]
Cayman Islands [details]
Colombia [details]
Cuba [details]
Eastern Caribbean [details]
Florida (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Floridian [details]
Grand Bahama (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Hispaniola [details]
Jamaica [details]
Mexico [details]
Northern Gulf of Mexico [details]
Panama [details]
Southern Caribbean [details]
Venezuela [details]
Virgin Islands [details]
Specimen  Holotype (from synonym): USNM 22506, locality Floridian (Florida, SE of Garden Key) [view taxon]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (10 nucleotides; 35 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To Sponge Barcoding Database (Ectyoplasia ferox)
To Sponge Barcoding Database (Ectyoplasia ferox)
To The Sponge Guide
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:168021
Taxonomic
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2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2007-08-20 14:47:02Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Ectyoplasia ferox (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864). 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=168021 on 2013-05-19
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