WoRMS taxon details
Biemna fortis (Topsent, 1897)
AphiaID: 168259
AphiaID: 168259
| 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 fortis Topsent, 1897 (genus transfer) | ||||||||||
| 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]
additional source: Lévi, C. 1961c. Éponges intercotidales de Nha Trang (Vietnam). Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale 100: 127-148. [details] [full text] additional source: Thomas, P.A. 1981. A second collection of marine Demospongiae from Mahe Island in the Seychelles Bank (Indian Ocean). Annalen. Reeks in 8 - Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika: zoologische wetenschappen, 233. Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika: Tervuren, Belgium. 54 plates pp. [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] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Anakao [details] Banda Sea [details] East African Coral Coast [details] Indonesian Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Indonesian part of the Banda Sea [details] Mahe Island [details] Malindi [details] Mombasa [details] Nyali [details] Quirimba Archipelago [details] Ras Iwetine [details] Red Sea [details] Seychelles [details] Seychellois Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Seychellois part of the Indian Ocean [details] Southern Vietnam [details] Vietnamese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] | ||||||||||
| Specimens |
Unknown type (from synonym): MNHN DT 1771, locality Amboina [view taxon]
Unknown type (from synonym): MNHN DT 1865, locality Red Sea [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection | ||||||||||
| Note |
Specimen: MRAC reg. No. 1646 [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:168259 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Biemna fortis (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=168259 on 2013-05-20 | |||||||||||
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