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Mycale (Zygomycale) Topsent, 1931 
AphiaID: 168697

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 Raphiodesma parishii Bowerbank, 1875 (type by original designation)
Parent Mycale Gray, 1867
Synonymised
taxa
  Zygomycale Topsent, 1931
Sources  original description: Topsent, E. 1931 [1930]. Éponges de Lamarck conservées au Muséum de Paris. Archives du Muséum national d’histoire naturelle. Paris (6) 5:1-56, pls I-IV. [details]

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]

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 Species Mycale (Zygomycale) angulosa (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
Species Mycale (Zygomycale) parishii (Bowerbank, 1875)
Species Mycale (Zygomycale) ramulosa Carballo & Cruz-Barrazo, 2010
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Caribbean Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Indo-West Pacific (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Link To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:168697
Taxonomic
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2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2007-07-10 19:18:31Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Mycale (Zygomycale) Topsent, 1931. 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=168697 on 2013-05-21
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