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Forcepia (Forcepia) forcipis (Bowerbank, 1866) 
AphiaID: 168859

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Poecilosclerida (Order) > Myxillina (Suborder) > Coelosphaeridae (Family) > Forcepia (Genus) > Forcepia (Forcepia) (Subgenus)
Status accepted
Record
status
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Rank Species
Parent Forcepia (Forcepia) Carter, 1874
Synonymised
taxa
  Esperia forcipis (Bowerbank, 1866)
Forcepia bulbosa (Carter, 1876) (subgenus assignment & junior synonym)
Forcepia forcipis (Bowerbank, 1866) (subgenus assignment)
Forcipina forcipis (Bowerbank, 1866) (genus transfer)
Halichondria bulbosa Carter, 1876 (genus transfer & junior synonym)
Halichondria forcipis Bowerbank, 1866 (genus transfer)
Halichondria forcipis var. bulbosa Carter, 1876 (genus transfer)
Myxilla forcipis (Bowerbank, 1866) (genus transfer)
Sources  original description: Bowerbank, J.S. 1866a. A Monograph of the British Spongiadae. Volume 2. (Ray Society: London): i-xx, 1-388. (look up in IMIS[details] [full text]

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]

new combination reference (from synonym): Vosmaer, G.C.J. 1880. The Sponges of the Leyden Museum. 1. The family of the Desmacidinae. Notes from the Leyden Museum 2: 99-164. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

new combination reference (from synonym): Fristedt, K. 1885. Bidrag till Kännedomen om de vid Sveriges vestra Kust lefvande Spongiae. Kungliga Svenska vetenskapsakademiens handlingar21: 1-56, pls I-IV. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

basis of record (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]

basis of record (from synonym): Van Soest, R.W.M. 2002. Family Coelosphaeridae Dendy, 1922. Pp. 528-546. 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] [view taxon]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Azores (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Celtic Seas [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
North Atlantic (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
North Atlantic Deep (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Portugal (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Shetlands [details]
United Kingdom (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Links To Encyclopedia of Life
To PESI
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:168859
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2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2007-09-08 14:05:10Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Forcepia (Forcepia) forcipis (Bowerbank, 1866). 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=168859 on 2013-06-19
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