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Biemna anisotoxa Lévi, 1963 
AphiaID: 168250

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Poecilosclerida (Order) > Mycalina (Suborder) > Desmacellidae (Family) > Biemna (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Biemna Gray, 1867
Sources  original description: Lévi, C. 1963. Spongiaires d’Afrique du Sud. (1) Poecilosclérides.Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 37(1): 1-72, pls I-X. [details]

additional source: Samaai, T.; Gibbons, M.J. 2005. Demospongiae taxonomy and biodiversity of the Benguela region on the west coast of South Africa. African Natural History, 1: 1-96 [details]

additional source: Vacelet, J. & P. Vasseur (1971). Eponges des recifs coralliens de Tulear (Madagascar). Thetys, Suppl. 1: 51-126. [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Agulhas Bank [details]
Namaqua [details]
South African Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Tuléar [details]
Western and Northern Madagascar [details]
Link To Encyclopedia of Life
Notes  Additional Material: South Africa - SAM-H4930 (fragment BMNH 1997.5.12.60) (Ts 485),
Coral Gardens (33°59’S, 17°23’E), depth 12 m, collected by
M.J. Gibbons, G. Isaacs and Z. Toeffie, 15 November 1996. [details]

Holotype: MNHN [details]

Type locality: South Africa [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:168250
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2006-10-15 09:09:18Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
2007-06-12 17:47:47Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Biemna anisotoxa Lévi, 1963. 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=168250 on 2013-05-21
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