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Biemna humilis Thiele, 1903 
AphiaID: 168263

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 humilis (Thiele, 1903) (reverted genus transfer)
Kerasemna humilis (Thiele, 1903) (genus transfer)
Sources  original description: Thiele, J. 1903a. Kieselschwämme von Ternate. II. Abhandlungen herausgegeben von der Senckenbergischen naturforschenden Gesellschaft 25: 933-968, pl. XVIII. [details] [full text]

source of synonymy (from synonym): 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] [view taxon]

additional source (from synonym): Pulitzer-Finali, G. 1993. A collection of marine sponges from East Africa. Annales Museo Civico Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria" 89: 247-350. [details] [view taxon]

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]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Chapani Island (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
East African Coral Coast [details]
Halmahera [details]
Indonesia [details]
Reunion (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Shimoni (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Tanzania (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Zanzibar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Specimens  Holotype: SMF 786, locality Indonesia (Moluccas, Ternate) [details]
Holotype: ZMB 3203, locality Indonesia (Moluccas, Ternate) [details]
Link To Encyclopedia of Life
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:168263
Taxonomic
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2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2007-06-12 17:47:47Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
2007-07-06 09:34:03Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Biemna humilis Thiele, 1903. 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=168263 on 2013-06-19
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