WoRMS taxon details
Biemna fistulosa (Topsent, 1897)
AphiaID: 168257
AphiaID: 168257
| 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 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Desmacella fistulosa Topsent, 1897 (genus transfer) Desmacella peachi var. fistulosa Topsent, 1897 (genus transfer and status change) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Topsent, E. 1897a. Spongiaires de la Baie d’Amboine. (Voyage de MM. M. Bedot et C. Pictet dans l’Archipel Malais). Revue suisse de Zoologie 4: 421-487, pls 18-21. [details] [full text]
basis of record: Van Soest, R.W.M.; Beglinger, E.J. 2002. A new species of Biemna (Porifera, Poecilosclerida) from the Sultanate of Oman. Beaufortia 52 (2): 15-24. [details] [full text] additional source: Pulitzer-Finali, G. 1982b. Some shallow-water sponges from Hong Kong. In: B.S.Morton & C.K. Tseng, eds. The Marine Flora and Fauna of Hong Kong and Southern China (Proceedings 1st International Marine Biolology Workshop): 97-110. [details] [full text] additional source: Richmond, M. (Ed.) (1997). A guide to the seashores of Eastern Africa and the Western Indian Ocean islands. Sida/Department for Research Cooperation, SAREC: Stockholm, Sweden. ISBN 91-630-4594-X. 448 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Pulitzer-Finali, G. 1993. A collection of marine sponges from East Africa. Annales Museo Civico Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria" 89: 247-350. [details] basis of record (from synonym): Hooper, J.N.A. 1996b. A toxic Biemna from Madagascar (Demospongiae:Poecilosclerida). Pp. 123-133. In: Willenz, Ph (Ed.), Recent Advances inSponge Biodiversity Inventory and Documentation. Bulletin de l’Institutroyal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique. Biologie, 66 (supplément 1-242). [details] [view taxon] [full text] | ||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Ambon (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Bamburi [details] Banda Sea [details] Chapani Island [details] East African Coral Coast [details] Hong Kong [details] Indonesia [details] Mombasa [details] Omani Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Ras Iwetine [details] Shelly Beach (Mombasa) [details] Shimoni [details] Tanzania [details] Western Arabian Sea [details] Zanzibar [details] | ||||||||||
| Specimen | Unknown type (from synonym): MNHN DT 1773, locality Amboina [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 2 proteins) | ||||||||||
| Note |
Description: Multi thin-walled, fragile tubes, 1-2 cm across and 1-3 cm high, appearing as a thin stretched skin embedded with branching coralline algae. Surface uneven, conulose and lacy in patches; body extremely cavernous. Oscules prominent, 1 cm wide, with raised membranous collars. Habitat: clustered in mixed algal beds, seagrass beds and shallow reefs. Distribution: also from SE Asia (Richmond, 1997). [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:168257 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Biemna fistulosa (Topsent, 1897). 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=168257 on 2013-06-18 | |||||||||||
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