WoRMS taxon details
Forcepia (Forcepia) mertoni Hentschel, 1912
AphiaID: 168872
AphiaID: 168872
| 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 mertoni Hentschel, 1912 (subgenus assignment) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Hentschel, E. 1912. Kiesel- und Hornschwämme der Aru- und Kei-Inseln. Abhandlungen herausgegeben von der Senckenbergischen naturforschenden Gesellschaft 34(3): 293-448, pls 13-21. [details] [full text]
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| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||
| Distribution | type locality: Arafura Sea [details] Indonesian Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Link | To Encyclopedia of Life | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:168872 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Forcepia (Forcepia) mertoni Hentschel, 1912. 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=168872 on 2013-05-24 | |||||||||||
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