WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Mycale (Mycale) Gray, 1867

Mycale (Mycale) Gray, 1867
AphiaID: 168621

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Poecilosclerida (Order) > Mycalina (Suborder) > Mycalidae (Family) > Mycale (Genus)

Status

accepted

Record
status

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Rank

Subgenus

Typetaxon

Hymeniacidon lingua Bowerbank, 1866 (type by subsequent designation)

Parent

Mycale Gray, 1867

Synonymised
taxa

Mycalecarmia de Laubenfels, 1936 (genus transfer)
Protoesperia Czerniavsky, 1880 (junior synonym)
Raphioderma Bowerbank, 1869 (junior synonym and misspelling if genus name)
Raphiodesma Bowerbank, 1874 (junior synonym)
Rhaphiodesma Bowerbank, 1874 (misspelling and junior synonym)

Sources

original description: Gray, J.E. 1867a. Notes on the Arrangement of Sponges, with the Descriptions of some New Genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867(2): 492-558, pls XXVII-XXVIII. [details] [full text]

basis of record: Van Soest, R.W.M.; Hajdu, E. 2002. Family Mycalidae Lundbeck, 1905. Pp. 669-690. 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: Norman, A.M. 1869a. Shetland final dredging report. Part II. On the Crustacea, Tunicata, Polyzoa, Echinodermata, Actinozoa, Hydrozoa, and Portifera. Report of the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 38: 247-336. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Carter, H.J. 1882a. Some Sponges from the West Indies and Acapulco in the Liverpool Free Museum described, with general and classificatory Remarks. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (5) 9(52): 266-301,346-368, pls XI-XII. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

from synonym: Laubenfels, M.W. De 1936a. A Discussion of the Sponge Fauna of the Dry Tortugas in Particular and the West Indies in General, with Material for a Revision of the Families and Orders of the Porifera. Carnegie Institute of Washington (Tortugas Laboratory Paper N° 467) 30: 1-225, pls 1-22. [details] [view taxon]

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: Czerniavsky, V. 1880 [1879]. Spongiae littorales Pontis Euxini et maris Caspii. Continuatio. [In Russian]. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 54(2): 88-128, 228-320, pls I-IV. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: 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] [view taxon]

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Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Link

To ITIS

LSID

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:168621

Taxonomic
Edit history

Date	action	by
2005-07-10 18:05:41Z	created	db_admin
2006-12-30 16:09:24Z	changed	van Soest, Rob

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Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Mycale (Mycale) Gray, 1867. 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=168621 on 2013-05-22

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