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Biemna truncata Hentschel, 1912 
AphiaID: 168291

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		  Tylodesma truncata (Hentschel, 1912) (reverted genus transfer)
Sources  original description: Hentschel, E. 1912. Kiesel- und Hornschwämme der Aru- und Kei-Inseln. Abhandlungen herausgegeben von der Senckenbergischen naturforschenden Gesellschaft 34(3): 293-448, pls 13-21.
page(s): 353 [details] [full text]

from synonym: 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] [view taxon] [full text]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution type locality: Arafura Sea [details]
Indonesian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Mahe Island (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Notes  Holotype: SMF [details]

Type locality: Aru & Ki Islands, Indonesia [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:168291
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
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2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2007-06-15 18:37:25Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Biemna truncata Hentschel, 1912. 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=168291 on 2013-05-25
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