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Forcepia (Forcepia) imperfecta Topsent, 1904 
AphiaID: 168867

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Poecilosclerida (Order) > Myxillina (Suborder) > Coelosphaeridae (Family) > Forcepia (Genus) > Forcepia (Forcepia) (Subgenus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Forcepia (Forcepia) Carter, 1874
Synonymised
taxa		  Forcepia imperfecta Topsent, 1904 (subgenus assignment)
Sources  original description: Topsent, E. 1904b. Spongiaires des Açores. Résultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies par le Prince Albert I. Monaco 25: 1-280, pls 1-18. [details] [full text]

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]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Azores (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Azores Canaries Madeira [details]
Azores Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
European waters (ERMS scope) (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Specimen  Unknown type (from synonym): MNHN DT 983, locality Azores (stn 616) [view taxon]
Links To Encyclopedia of Life
To PESI
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:168867
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-07-10 18:05:41Z  created  db_admin
2010-05-24 12:36:33Z  changed  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Forcepia (Forcepia) imperfecta Topsent, 1904. 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=168867 on 2013-05-23
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