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Hamacantha (Vomerula) falcula (Bowerbank, 1874) 
AphiaID: 168431

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Poecilosclerida (Order) > Mycalina (Suborder) > Hamacanthidae (Family) > Hamacantha (Genus) > Hamacantha (Vomerula) (Subgenus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Hamacantha (Vomerula) Schmidt, 1880
Synonymised
taxa
  Halichondria falcula Bowerbank, 1874 (genus transfer)
Hamacantha falcula (Bowerbank, 1874) (subgenus assignment)
Sources  original description: Bowerbank, J.S. 1874b. A Monograph of the British Spongiadae.Volume 3. (Ray Society: London): i-xvii, 1-367, pls I-XCII. (look up in IMIS[details]

basis of record: Hajdu, E. 2002. Family Hamacanthidae Gray, 1872. Pp. 665-668. In Hooper, J. N. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (ed.) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 1 (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow). [details]

from synonym: Van Soest, R.W.M. 2001. Porifera, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 85-103 (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Burton, M. 1956. The sponges of West Africa. Atlantide Report (Scientific Results of the Danish Expedition to the Coasts of Tropical West Africa, 1945-1946, Copenhagen) 4: 111-147. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Maldonado, M. (1992). Demosponges of the red coral bottoms from the Alboran Sea. J. Nat. Hist. 26: 1131-1161 (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Aegean Sea [details]
Alboran Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Azores (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Azores Canaries Madeira [details]
Celtic Seas [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Madeira (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Monaco (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
North Mediterranean (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
United Kingdom (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Western Mediterranean [details]
Links To Encyclopedia of Life
To PESI
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:168431
Taxonomic
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2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2009-03-12 08:38:15Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Hamacantha (Vomerula) falcula (Bowerbank, 1874). 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=168431 on 2013-05-20
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