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Asbestopluma (Asbestopluma) gracilior (Schmidt, 1870) 
AphiaID: 168198

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Poecilosclerida (Order) > Mycalina (Suborder) > Cladorhizidae (Family) > Asbestopluma (Genus) > Asbestopluma (Asbestopluma) (Subgenus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Asbestopluma (Asbestopluma) Topsent, 1901
Synonymised
taxa		  Cometella gracilior Schmidt, 1870 (genus transfer)
Sources  original description: Schmidt, O. 1870. Grundzüge einer Spongien-Fauna des atlantischen Gebietes. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): iii-iv, 1-88, pls I-VI. [details] [full text]

basis of record: Hajdu, E.; Vacelet, J. 2002. Family Cladorhizidae Dendy, 1922. Pp. 636-641. In Hooper, J. N. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (ed.) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 1 (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow). [details]

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]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Floridian [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
United States part of the Gulf of Mexico (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Link To Encyclopedia of Life
Note  This the type species of the unaccepted genus Cometella. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:168198
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2006-01-03 22:15:11Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
2007-06-05 11:45:41Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
2012-08-03 13:29:49Z  changed  Vacelet, Jean
  
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  Citation: Vacelet, J.; van Soest, R. (2013). Asbestopluma (Asbestopluma) gracilior (Schmidt, 1870). 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=168198 on 2013-06-20
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