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Mycale (Mycale) massa (Schmidt, 1862) 
AphiaID: 168647

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Poecilosclerida (Order) > Mycalina (Suborder) > Mycalidae (Family) > Mycale (Genus) > Mycale (Mycale) (Subgenus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Mycale (Mycale) Gray, 1867
Synonymised
taxa
  Esperella massa (Schmidt, 1862) (genus transfer)
Esperia borassus Carter, 1876 (genus transfer and junior synonym)
Esperia massa Schmidt, 1862 (genus transfer)
Mycale borassus (Carter, 1876) (junior synonym)
Mycale massa (Schmidt, 1862) (subgenus assignment)
Sources  original description: Schmidt, O. 1862. Die Spongien des adriatischen Meeres. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): i-viii, 1-88, pls 1-7. [details] [full text]

additional source: Cruz, T. 2002. Esponjas marinas de Canarias. Consejería de Política Territorial y Medio Ambiente del Gobierno de Canarias, S/C Tenerife. 260 pp. [details]

additional source (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]

original description (from synonym): Carter, H.J. 1876. Descriptions and Figures of Deep-Sea Sponges and their Spicules, from the Atlantic Ocean, dredged up on board H.M.S.‘Porcupine’, chiefly in 1869 (concluded). Annals and Magazine of Natural History (4) 18(105): 226-240; (106): 307-324; (107): 388-410;(108): 458-479, pls XII-XVI. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

additional source (from synonym): Bibiloni, M.A. 1981. Estudio sistemático de orden Poecilosclerida(Demospongia) de la Costa Brava (Gerona). Boletín del Instituto españolde oceanografía 6(4): 103-154. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

additional source (from synonym): Boury-Esnault, N.; Pansini, M.; Uriz, M.J. 1994b. Spongiaires bathyaux de la mer d’Alboran et du golfe ibéro-marocain. Mémoires du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle 160: 1-174. [details] [view taxon]

additional source (from synonym): Lévi, C. 1957a. Spongiaires des côtes d'Israel. Bulletin of the Research Council of Israel 6 B(3-4): 201-212. [details] [view taxon]

additional source (from synonym): Lévi, C. 1960c. Spongiaires des côtes occidentales africaines. Bulletin de l’Institut français d’Afrique noire (A, Sciences naturelles) 22(3): 743-769. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

additional source (from synonym): Mustapha, K.B.,Zarrouk, S., Souissi, A., ; El Abed, A. 2003.Diversite Des Desmosponges Tunisiennes.Bull.Inst. Natn. Scien. Tech. Mer de Salammbô. Vol. 30 [details] [view taxon]

additional source (from synonym): Rützler, K., R. W. M. van Soest, and C. Piantoni. 2009. Sponges (Porifera) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 285–313 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] [view taxon]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Adriatic Sea [details]
Aegean Sea [details]
Azores [details]
Azores Canaries Madeira [details]
Azores Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Canary Islands Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Cape Verde [details]
Croatian Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
European waters (ERMS scope) (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Gibraltar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Gulf of Gascogne (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Israeli Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Levantine Sea [details]
Mediterranean Sea [details]
Monaco [details]
North East Atlantic (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
North Sea [details]
Portugal (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
South European Atlantic Shelf [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [Mediterranean part] (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Tunisian Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
West Africa Coast (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
West Coast of France [details]
Western Mediterranean [details]
Links To Encyclopedia of Life
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:168647
Taxonomic
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2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2007-07-19 10:21:28Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Mycale (Mycale) massa (Schmidt, 1862). 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=168647 on 2013-06-20
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